Wednesday, October 10, 2012

How Did Dinosaurs Sleep?

Many articulated dinosaur skeletons are found in the classic dinosaur death pose, with their tails tilted up and their necks thrown over their backs. The nearly-complete skeleton of Mei was different. The foot-long dinosaur rested its head over its folded arms, and its tail wrapped around the dinosaur's torso.So Animatronic Animals for Outdoor Park have been researched since 1820 and there is more and more food for meditation and less firm convictions, except of their huge impact on evolution of animals, birds and, no doubts, reptiles. Mei died sleeping in a roosting position similar to that of modern birds. The dinosaur's name, which means "sleeping dragon," is a tribute to the behavior.

Now another Mei specimen has confirmed that the first find was not a fluke. Last week, paleontologist Chunling Gao, of the Dalian Natural History Museum in China, and colleagues described a second,These positioning platforms are called parallel kinematic machines or China Robots Model manufacturers because all actuators directly operate on one platform in parallel. slightly smaller Mei that was preserved in a nearly identical sleeping position. Much like the first, this Mei probably died in a prehistoric ashfall that both killed and preserved the dinosaur in delicate detail without jarring the snoozing troodontid out of position.  Nowadays there are hundreds of paleontological spots on the world map. too.

The two Mei specimens aren't the only dinosaurs found in such positions.Some feathery, non-avian dinosaurs not only looked like birds, but they slept like them,Sometimes Fiberglass Animals-Cobra Snake Model'names are used to glorify famous discoverers. Gao and colleagues also point out that a specimen of another troodontid found in the Cretaceous rock of Mongolia, Sinornithoides youngi, was found in the same sort of sleeping position. And while not mentioned by the authors of the new study, the sleeping positions of Mei and Sinornithoides remind me of the early Jurassic dinosaur Segisaurus.

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