从1820年代最早发掘出恐龙化石并进行科学命名算起,对恐龙的研究已有170年的历史了。百多年来,大约积累了6000篇左右的研究论文,建立了大约500个属,上千个种,这是恐龙研究所取得的主要成果。和其它各类古脊椎动物一样,恐龙研究的基本方法是建立在形态学、分类学和比较解剖学的基础上的。早期对于恐龙的描述鉴定就以这些方法为主,直到今 From the earliest exhumation of dinosaur fossils in the 1820s and the scientific nomenclature, the study of dinosaurs has been 170 years of history. Over a hundred years, about 6000 research papers have been accumulated and about 500 genera and thousands have been established. This is the major achievement made by dinosaur research. Like other types of ancient vertebrates, the basic method of dinosaur research is based on morphology, taxonomy and comparative anatomy. Early identification of dinosaurs to these methods based, until now