Thu, 14 Apr 2011 13:00:00 -0500
Stephen Spielberg's movie Jurassic Park got one thing right.
Velociraptors hunted by night while big plant-eating dinosaurs browsed around the clock, according to a paper on the eyes of fossil animals published on-line this week in Science Express.
That overturns the conventional wisdom that dinosaurs were active by day while early mammals scurried around at night, said Ryosuke Motani, a geologist at the University of California at Davis, and a co-author of the ...
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