Chinese Early Cretaceous birds, as well as arboreal dinosaurs of the same age in China, also provide compelling evidence for the arboreal hypothesis of the origin of avian flight.

• “恐龙下树”的假说结合了鸟类起源于恐龙的学说和鸟类飞行的树栖起源学说，因此也得到了化石证据的支持。