Some Dinosaurs Loved the Nightlife (6 of 12) (IMAGE)

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Some Dinosaurs Loved the Nightlife (6 of 12)

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Velociraptor mongoliensis was a nocturnal carnivore. This image relates to an article that appeared in the April 14, 2011, issue of Science Express, published by AAAS. The study, by Lars Schmitz and Ryosuke Motani at University of California, Davis, was titled, "Nocturnality in Dinosaurs Inferred from Scleral Ring and Orbit Morphology."

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Image courtesy of Lars Schmitz

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