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今年1月23日,英国《自然》杂志发表了由中国科学院古脊椎动物与古人类研究所的徐星博士和他的研究小组撰写的封面文章《源自中国的四翼恐龙》。古生物界一致认为这是一项重要发现,英国里兹大学的进化生物学家瑞讷博士称这是继始祖鸟之后在鸟类演化研究领域最重要的发现,美国芝加哥大学的古生物学家保罗·塞里诺教授更是将其称之为“一篇具有里程碑意义的论文”。这种四翼恐龙——顾氏小盗龙究竟为什么会引起这么大的轰动呢?
On January 23 this year, the British magazine “Nature” published the cover article “Four-Winged Dinosaurs from China” written by Dr. Xu Xing and his research team at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The paleontologists agreed that this is an important discovery. Dr. Rena, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Leeds in the UK, called this the most important discovery in the field of bird evolution since the Archaeopteryx. Paleobiologist Paul Seychelles at the University of Chicago Professor Reno called it “a landmark paper.” This four-wing dinosaur Gu Xiaolong how could cause such a great sensation?