The wildlife here works in shifts, so when the daytime gang clocks off, many rarer creatures show their faces.
Bats are shy creatures, especially during the daytime, when they hide in caves, trees, and even under bridges.
But the new study hints that the creature was active in the daytime, because no extant birds with glossy black plumage are active at night.
Mice are clever creatures that aren't easily spotted during daytime hours while people are around.
With artificial light, modern humans have essentially managed to extend their daytime activities late into the night, when all other sensible creatures are busy sleeping.
In the evening, the Imax theater shows Hollywood features like "Star Trek"; daytime films include "Deep Sea," a close-up view of sea creatures around the world, narrated by Kate Winslet.
When I haven't played at any of them, I haven't gone because of the talking all day... "I'm a creature of the night and conventions are all about the daytime.
The fossil's large eye sockets indicate a creature with good vision and, according to scientists, it probably hunted during daytime.
Work too many nights, however, and daytime becomes a fearsome land full of piercing noises and blurry movement and all these things - you know, loud, flapping creatures - people, that's it.
The creatures were almost 50% more likely to go into hiding--which they typically do during the daytime--after being exposed to the "day" fumes than they were when exposed to the "night" fumes.
