Given the species name Mei long, Chinese for “soundly sleeping dragon,” the duck-size dinosaur apparently died while it napped. Its face is nestled behind one forelimb, which resembles a wing except ...

Mei long, which means "soundly sleeping dragon", was pulled out of the famous fossil beds of Liaoning Province. This is the location in China where so many feathered dinosaurs have been discovered - ...

The fossil of a small, raptor-like dinosaur named Mei Long, whose name translates to "sleeping dragon." (Credit: Bruce McAdam/CC by 2.0/Wikimedia Commons) From museum halls to movie screens, we love ...

The dinosaur, named Mei long, or 'soundly sleeping dragon', has lain undisturbed for almost 140 million years. But its sleeping posture is strikingly similar to that of modern birds, showing that ...

Figure 1: Holotype of Mei long (IVPP V12733). This specimen displays the earliest recorded occurrence of the stereotypical sleeping or resting behaviour found in living birds. The body sits on ...

MEI long, the “soundly sleeping dragon”, is small enough to hold in your two hands. Its head is tucked under its forelimb, like a sleeping bird with its head under a wing. When I saw it in Xu ...