Now, taxonomists argue that since birds are descended from dinosaurs they should be classified merely as a subgroup of the Dinosauria.

现在，分类学家认为，既然已经发现鸟类是恐龙的后代，那么它们应当被划分为仅仅是恐龙的一个子群。

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Today, most researchers agree that birds are, indeed, a branch of the Dinosauria.

今天，多数研究人员都一致同意鸟类的确是恐龙的分支物种。

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If a baby chicken's leg bones were enlarged and fossilized, he noted, "there would be nothing in their characters to prevent us from referring them to the Dinosauria."

他写道，如果一只幼鸟的腿骨被放大且成为化石，“那么在我们看来，它与恐龙的腿骨之间根本不存在特性差异。”

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Most prominent was the British paleontologist, biologist, and comparative anatomist Richard Owen, who coined the term dinosauria (Greek for "great lizards"), and in 1853 opened a Dinosaur Court in London's Crystal Palace, holding a banquet in the belly of an ersatz iguanodon.

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