#Bird-Like #Dinosaurs Slept Like Modern #Birds, New #Fossil Reveals https://www.sci.news/paleontology/jaculinykus-yaruui-12456.html

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 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0293801

"#Alvarezsauria is a group of bizarre maniraptoran #theropods whose latest-branching members possess remarkably avian homoplasies"