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。
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.
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。
And perhaps most significant, birds were already found in the fossil record before the elaboration of the dinosaurs they supposedly descended from.
同时也许最明显的是,在详尽阐述据说鸟类从它们演化而来的恐龙之前,化石记录中就已经发现了鸟类。
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