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Shafer’s team proposes that for all vertebrates, nocturnality was a survival advantage during catastrophes.

From Science Magazine • Nov. 20, 2023

The advantage “could be something about the feeding ecology,” rather than nocturnality per se, agrees Jonathan Payne, a paleontologist at Stanford University.

From Science Magazine • Nov. 20, 2023

To conclude, the inference of nocturnality in dinosaurs from scleral ring and orbit morphology is sound.

From Science Magazine • Dec. 22, 2011