About: Spec Dinosauria: Arbronychosauroidea

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As strange as the idea may be here and now, it was not so long ago that paleontologists considered all dinosaurs to be strict ground-dwellers (keep in mind, this was before birds were realized to be dinosaurs themselves). While a few very early workers posited tree-climbing non-avian dinosaurs, in the long, dark stretch of the middle twentieth century, such ideas were forgotten and the terrible saurians became exclusively creatures of the swamp.

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rdfs:label	Spec Dinosauria: Arbronychosauroidea
rdfs:comment	As strange as the idea may be here and now, it was not so long ago that paleontologists considered all dinosaurs to be strict ground-dwellers (keep in mind, this was before birds were realized to be dinosaurs themselves). While a few very early workers posited tree-climbing non-avian dinosaurs, in the long, dark stretch of the middle twentieth century, such ideas were forgotten and the terrible saurians became exclusively creatures of the swamp.
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abstract	As strange as the idea may be here and now, it was not so long ago that paleontologists considered all dinosaurs to be strict ground-dwellers (keep in mind, this was before birds were realized to be dinosaurs themselves). While a few very early workers posited tree-climbing non-avian dinosaurs, in the long, dark stretch of the middle twentieth century, such ideas were forgotten and the terrible saurians became exclusively creatures of the swamp. It was not until the mid 1980s when some paleontologists again suggested treetops as another home for non-avian dinosaurs, turning to the coelurosaurs, small, agile, and (the imagination reels) possible warm-blooded and feathered predators as the most likely dinosaur climbers. Most scientists, however, treated such ideas as derision: who could imaging a dinosaur like Tyrannosaurus or Triceratops in a tree? It was not until almost the end of the century, when Chinese fossil beds began to yield fossils of small, hundred-million-year-old dinosaurs that the orthodoxy was proven wrong. Dinosaurs can climb, and many did.

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