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How did dinosaurs sleep?


 As weird as it very well may be to envision, dinosaurs would have dozed. Could they rests, or rest standing up? Could they take fast rests or long sleeps? We don't actually know the responses. Be that as it may, there is one dinosaur whose rest propensities are surely known: the little pup measured troodontid theropod Mei long, a direct relation of birds.

Two skeletons of this 125-million-year-old dinosaur have been tracked down fossilized in a dozing position (presented underneath). Maybe a volcanic emission suffocated and covered these dinosaurs while they were snoozing, like the way that a few people were gotten uninformed at Pompeii by the ejection of Mount Vesuvius.

The skeletons are in the equivalent 'wrap up' dozing stance of the present birds: the body sits on collapsed appendages and the head is wrapped up between the arm and middle. Birds rest this method for monitoring heat in their minds - a need for warm-blooded creatures. Maybe this is an indication that a few dinosaurs were warm-blooded as well. 


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