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News Release 11-076
"Jurassic Park" Had it Right: Some Dinosaurs Hunted by Night
New research results show that dinosaurs didn't all dine by day
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Close-up of the eye socket and ring of the dinosaur Protoceratops, active by day and night.
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The small carnivorous dinosaur Juravenator starki was nocturnal.
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Close-up of the skull of the nocturnal Juraventor.
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The pterosaur Scaphognathus crassirostris was a day-active archosaur, evidenced by its eye.
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As in the movie Jurassic Park, Velociraptor mongoliensis was indeed a nocturnal carnivore.
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Skull of the large, plant-eating dinosaur Diplodocus longus, active both day and night.
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The researchers' work is described in the April 15, 2011 issue of the journal Science.
Credit: Copyright AAAS 2011
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