"Iguanodon was about thirty feet (ten meters) long and weighed a few tons. It had a spike on its thumb for defense and a beak at the front of its mouth for snipping plants, and it could switch between walking on all fours and sprinting on its hind legs. Its line would eventually go on to produce the hadrosaurs, or duck-billed dinosaurs, [...]"
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Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs (2018), Chapter 4. Dinosaurs and Drifting Continents
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