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Published online 13 October 2004 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news041011-7
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Fossil dinosaur slept like a bird
'Sleeping dragon' may have been trying to stay warm while it snoozed.
The angst-ridden Prince Hamlet described death as an eternal sleep, fearfully wondering what dreams may come during the everlasting slumber. So perhaps he would have empathized with a dinosaur newly unearthed in China: it seems to have been preserved in the act of sleeping.
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