在1999年11月发表的美国著名科学刊物《国家地理杂志》上,有一篇题为《霸王龙长羽毛了吗?》的文章(以下简称为“霸”)。这篇文章介绍了4种亚洲新发现的中生代动物化石,其中之一就是近几个月来引起国内外媒体广泛关注的“辽宁古盗鸟”。“辽宁古盗鸟”是一个走私到美国的我国古生物化石标本,经过中外科学家的多方努力,它已经被无偿归还我国,现在存放于中国科学院古脊椎动物与古人类研究所(以下简称为古脊椎所)下属的中国古动物馆。在“霸”文中,作者斯隆把“辽宁古盗鸟”称作“恐龙和鸟类之间的一个缺失环节”,并认为这个发现为鸟类起源于恐龙的假说提供了最为直接的证据。国外古生物学界为之震动,然而 In an article published in November 1999 in the famous American scientific journal “National Geographic magazine,” there is an article entitled “Tyrannosaurus Rex Long Feather?” (Hereinafter referred to as “tyrant”). This article introduces four newly discovered Mesozoic animal fossils in Asia, one of which is the “Liaoning ancient bird” which has drawn widespread media attention in recent months. “Liaoning ancient bird” is a smuggled to the United States of China paleontology fossils specimens, after many efforts by Chinese and foreign scientists, it has been returned to China at no charge, now stored in the Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (hereinafter referred to as the ancient vertebra ) Under the China Ancient Animal Museum. In Pa, the author Sloan called “Liaoning’s ancient bird-robber” a “missing link between dinosaurs and birds,” and found the discovery to provide the most direct evidence of the hypothesis that birds originated in dinosaurs. Paleontology in foreign countries for its shock, however