Monday, June 13, 2011

Eye bones show that some dinosaurs like the night (Figure)

Dinosaur eye bone.

Compiler: Lee

Basically, paleontologists believe that dinosaurs only in the daytime, when night hunting and eating mammals, they are stored physically. But recently the structure of the eye of the latest dinosaur research shows that at least part of the dinosaurs is very active at night. Research report, researchers analyzed the structure of the dinosaur's eyes, including eyes, scleral ring size and shape. Have nocturnal habits of animals, scleral ring outside diameter than the inside diameter, and habits of animals during the day activities are reversed. Scientists compared the 33 species of dinosaurs, including 9 of eye structure has obvious characteristics of nocturnal animals.

(From "The New York Times")

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