14 oktober 2004

Nytt på dinosauriefronten " Sleeping Dino Assumed Birdlike Pose" Scientists working in China have uncovered yet more secrets of dinosaur life, this time a fossil of a 130-million-year-old creature that was preserved in the act of catching 40 winks. The animal's pose, with its head tucked between its left elbow and its body, resembles that adopted by slumbering birds today and suggests that avian features emerged early in dinosaurian evolution. (Från Scientific American 14 oktober via Newsisfree)

posted by åsa @ torsdag, oktober 14, 2004