至于人们对恐龙的普遍态度，以盗龙为例。
As for popular attitudes towards dinosaur, take the Oviraptor for instance.
像伶盗龙这类一般被视为恐龙的小型动物其实更可能是不能飞的鸟类。
Small animals such as velociraptors that have generally been thought to be dinosaurs are more likely flightless birds.
撇开颈椎形状的微小差别不谈，早期鸟类和它们手盗龙家族的近亲看起来非常相似。
Aside from minor differences in the shape of the neck vertebrae, early birds and their Maniraptoran kin, look very much alike.
虽然它并不是鸟类的祖先，但小盗龙和先前所发现的带羽毛恐龙并不相像。
Microraptor, from the Dromaeosaur family, was not an ancestor of birds, but it was also unlike any previously discovered feathered dinosaur.
现代鸟类不同于它们的手盗龙祖先，它们拥有突出的大趾，可以栖于枝头。
And modern birds, unlike their Maniraptoran ancestors, have a big toe that juts away from the other toes, which allows birds to perch.
“恐爪龙类”比如“伶盗龙”，用两条腿走路，食肉，有邪恶的可伸缩的爪。
Deinonychosaurs, such as the velociraptor, walked on two legs, ate meat and had vicious retractable claws.
他认为，顾氏小盗龙仅仅用后翼来滑翔，在加力飞翔时，便折叠起来，以免挡道。
He thinks microraptor used its hind wings only for gliding, folding them out of the way for powered flight.
研究人员最初认为，顾氏小盗龙从身体两侧伸展出前肢与后肢，形成两对滑行翼。
Researchers originally suggested that Microraptor spread both arms and legs to the sides of its body to form two pairs of gliding wings.
一位旋钮派的报社专栏作家提到，《侏罗纪公园》里的伶盗龙就能扣动门把手开门。
One newspaper columnist in the pro-knob camp has noted that the velociraptors in "Jurassic Park" were able to open doors by their handles.
“非鸟手盗龙的长臂和巨掌逐渐演化成你在肯德基中经常看到的烤鸡翅，”苏伊士说。
"You gradually go from the long arms and huge hands of non-avian Maniraptorans to something that looks like the chicken wing you get at KFC," says Sues.
恐龙研究专家认为，现代鸟类直接起源于手盗龙类，其他已灭绝的恐龙现在被称之为“非鸟恐龙”。
Modern birds are direct descendants of Maniraptoran dinosaurs, experts say. The creatures that went extinct millions of years ago are now called "non-avian dinosaurs."
这些羽毛极有可能属于一只年幼的非鸟兽脚类恐龙，意即样子更接近伶盗龙或者暴龙，而非现代鸟类。
The feathers most likely belonged to a baby nonavian theropod, meaning it looked more similar to a velociraptor or Tyrannosaurus rex than to a modern bird.
尤其值得关注的是，一些特征呈现出介于中国鸟龙和小盗龙之间的过渡状态，其中部分来自牙齿和坐骨。
Noteworthy are several osteological features, including dental and ischial ones, which are transitional between the condition of Sinornithosaurus and that of Microraptor.
像伶盗龙(velociraptor)这类一般被视为恐龙的小型动物其实更像没有羽毛的鸟类，他说。
Small animals such as velociraptor that have generally been thought to be dinosaurs are more likely flightless birds, he said.
撇开颈椎形状和四肢长度的微小差别不谈，早期鸟类和它们手盗龙家族的近亲(如迅猛龙)看起来非常相似。
Aside from minor differences in the shape of neck vertebrae and the relative length of the arms, early birds and their Maniraptoran kin, such as Velociraptor, look very much alike.
小盗龙，生活在距今六千六百多万年前的白垩纪，是现今中国境内发现的众多体型娇小、长有羽毛的恐龙之一。
Microraptoris one of many small, feathered dinosaurs found in what is now China that were alive during the Cretaceous period more than 66m years ago.
中国的古生物学家认为，这种新发现的恐龙-二连巨盗龙，可能是至今发现的最大羽毛动物，对较小的恐龙形成威胁。
The newly discovered dino, shown looming over much smaller dinosaurs-probably represents the largest feathered animal ever known, Chinese paleontologists say.
伊奥卓玛龙生活生活在距今2.3亿年前，存在于在始盗龙之前，是恐龙世纪的最早期，而科学家对这段时期知之甚少。
Eodromaeus, at 230 million years old, is from the very earliest days of the dinosaur era, a period about which scientists still know very little.
所有这些羽毛类型在兽脚亚目的印痕化石中都被找到了，兽脚类属于恐龙亚目，包括了雷克斯霸王龙、鸟类以及其他手盗龙。
All these feather types have been found in fossil impressions of theropods, the dinosaur suborder that includes Tyrannosaurus rex as well as birds and other Maniraptorans.
O’Connor博士和她的同事们发现的是在“小盗龙”标本的胃中发现的还没消化完的一种这些鸟类中的一员，目前还没确认的物种。
What Dr O'Connor and her colleagues have found is the remains of one of those birds, of an as-yet-unidentified species, in the stomach of a specimen of Microraptor.
研究人员利用这个有羽毛的重建小盗龙制作了一些聚氨酯泡沫模型。研究人员从不同的高度发射了这些模型，并记录了它们每次滑翔的距离、速度以及角度。
The researchers used this feathered reconstruction to make urethane foam models that they launched from various heights, recording the distance, velocity, and Angle of each glide.
除了少数几位持怀疑观点的学者外，大多数古生物学家都认为，这些化石最终证实了鸟类起源于恐龙，是手盗龙(Maniraptorans)恐龙谱系的现存代表生物。
The fossils finally have confirmed, to all but a few skeptics, that birds descended from dinosaurs and are the living representatives of a dinosaur lineage called the Maniraptorans.
在这项最新的发表在PNAS上的研究中，科学家仔细考察了一块奇特的化石标本“小盗龙”（mircoraptor），这块化石上的四肢全部都有羽毛，有点类似两栖飞机（bi-plane）。
In the newest PNAS study, scientists examined a remarkable fossil specimen that had feathers on all four limbs, somewhat resembling a bi-plane.
在这项最新的发表在PNAS上的研究中，科学家仔细考察了一块奇特的化石标本“小盗龙”（mircoraptor），这块化石上的四肢全部都有羽毛，有点类似两栖飞机（bi-plane）。
In the newest PNAS study, scientists examined a remarkable fossil specimen that had feathers on all four limbs, somewhat resembling a bi-plane.
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