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Speculative drawing of the back of a Stegosaurus-like dinosaur. Still not sure about what I want to show.
A kind of plant (or fungus, maybe?) grows all over the plates on the back of this, and maybe all Stegosaurians. The pods are specially loved by those little reptiles (or some kind of ancient salamander, maybe?), that descend from the lower branches to feed and take a ride.
I don't know how it started. Maybe it was all about spores getting stuck to the plates and growing there at first, but after several generations, it could have evolved into parasitism, or symbiosis (what could a Stegosaurus win from a plant growing on it's back? Maybe it becomes photosynthetic, or maybe females are attracted to males that carry a lot of food on their backs for future babies?), but with time, plants grew bigger, to the point of the dinosaurs looking like walking bushes.
I am not clear yet with these little theories, but it's all about thinking outside the box.

Description
Speculative drawing of the back of a Stegosaurus-like dinosaur. Still not sure about what I want to show.
A kind of plant (or fungus, maybe?) grows all over the plates on the back of this, and maybe all Stegosaurians. The pods are specially loved by those little reptiles (or some kind of ancient salamander, maybe?), that descend from the lower branches to feed and take a ride.
I don't know how it started. Maybe it was all about spores getting stuck to the plates and growing there at first, but after several generations, it could have evolved into parasitism, or symbiosis (what could a Stegosaurus win from a plant growing on it's back? Maybe it becomes photosynthetic, or maybe females are attracted to males that carry a lot of food on their backs for future babies?), but with time, plants grew bigger, to the point of the dinosaurs looking like walking bushes.
I am not clear yet with these little theories, but it's all about thinking outside the box.