Amazing and worth living is finding those little branching points and finding where things get a little bit weird or a little bit different or counterintuitive or surprising, you know, and chasing that.

发现那些小小的分岔点， 找到那些有点怪有点不同违背直觉令人惊讶的地方， 追逐这些，真是太神了，也值得我们去体验。

Microraptor belongs to the clan of dinosaurs that includes Deinonychus, and it's close to the branching point that leads to birds, which means it might represent the body plan of the common ancestor from which both lines evolved.

小盗龙括恐爪龙在内的恐龙家族，它接近鸟类的分支点，这意味着它可能代表了这两个谱系进化而来的共同祖先的身体结构。