image: An illustration of a sleeping alvarezsaurid dinosaur, Jaculinykus, like modern birds.
Credit: Seiji Yamamoto, 2023, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
New near-complete skeleton of a bird-like dinosaur is found in a position which suggests it slept like modern birds
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Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0293801
Article Title: A new alvarezsaurid dinosaur (Theropoda, Alvarezsauria) from the Upper Cretaceous Baruungoyot Formation of Mongolia provides insights for bird-like sleeping behavior in non-avian dinosaurs
Author Countries: Japan, Mongolia
Funding: Funding for this project was granted by Research Fellowships from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS 21J12938) (to KK) and Ami Koshimizu (Endless Glory Office Restart Co., Ltd.) (to KK). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
Journal
PLOS ONE
Article Title
A new alvarezsaurid dinosaur (Theropoda, Alvarezsauria) from the Upper Cretaceous Baruungoyot Formation of Mongolia provides insights for bird-like sleeping behavior in non-avian dinosaurs
Article Publication Date
15-Nov-2023
COI Statement
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.