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Stegosaurus Plate Soup

Ever since Savannahs started emerging in Africa the only known location where stegosaurs survived the Cretaceous paleogene extinction, their habitats have been limited to the few humid subtropical areas of the continent
This already puts pressure on their population numbers, so when humans came into the scene, the rest was history. Today, only three species of stegosaurs are still extant, and all of them are facing their demise from poaching. Their plates fetch a high price in places like China where it's believed that they have beneficial medicinal properties. The first couple of small plates are what the poachers really after, because people want to have that iconic plate in a soup picture. Adults are also less likely to be hunted because of their size and how tough their plates are, instead it is the infants that are being killed for their young soft plates.