这些人物自身那些畸形的脑袋,动物状的耳朵和残缺的肢体,更像是潜意识的投影。
The figures themselves, with their misshapen heads, animal-like ears and half-formed limbs are also likeapparitions out of the subconscious.
有趣的是,对于小型哺乳动物,如啮齿类动物,岛屿规则是相反的,因为在岛状条件下,巨头主义是有利的。
Interestingly, the island rule is reversed for small mammals such as rodents, for which gigantism is favored under insular conditions.
有趣的是,对于啮齿动物这样的小型哺乳动物来说,岛屿法则被推翻了,因为在岛状环境下,巨大的体型是最受欢迎的。
Interestingly, the island rule is overturned for small mammals such as rodents, for which gigantism is favored under insular conditions.
在北美洲生活着各种各样的巨兽,如猛犸象和乳齿象,都是长着巨大象牙的象状动物,还有骆驼和巨大的树懒,名单待续。
North America was populated by a wide variety of great beasts, like mammoth and mastodons, both elephant-like creatures with big tusks, and camels, giant sloths, the list goes on.
亚马逊河豚和我们钟爱的鳍状肢动物一点儿都不像。
Amazon dolphins bear little resemblance to our beloved Flipper.
还有像不能飞行的鸟类的株状的翅膀,还有人类皮肤的毛发就和有毛皮的哺乳动物类似,这些都是我们有共同的祖先的证据。
Vestiges such as the stumpy wings of flightless birds, and the hairs that prickle on human skin just like the rising hackles on furry mammals, are further testimony to our Shared origins.
这种古老的爬行动物背上有着标志性的船帆状背鳍,它常常会被误认为是一种恐龙,甚至出现在恐龙玩具中。
This reptile, with its iconic sail-shaped back, is often mistakenly identified as a dinosaur, and is even included in packages of toy dinosaurs.
一些小动物甚至会摆出一个经典造型——把脑袋抬起侧向一边,摆出一副非常严肃的凝视状。
Some even managed that classic pose of cocking their head to one side with an earnest gaze.
不仅如此,当一个浪头即将把海豹扫回险境之时,座头鲸还利用它的巨大的鳍状肢(五米长,动物王国中最长的)把它轻轻地推了回来。
Not only that, but when a wave threatened to return the seal to danger, the humpback used its massive flipper (at five metres, the longest in the animal kingdom) to nudge it back on.
这种鲨鱼状的动物属于神秘的银蛟类。 银蛟可能是现存最古老的鱼类之一,人类对它的研究少之又少。
The shark-like animal belongs to the mysterious and little-studied chimaeras, perhaps the oldest group of fish alive today.
动物研究已经发现,身体活跃的动物拥有更好的记忆,而且它们的海马状突起有更多细胞。
Animal studies have found that physically active animals have better memories and more cells in their hippocampus.
这种叫作牙形刺的动物长有数排相互咬合的圆锥状利牙,像钉耙一样将猎物“耙”入口中。
The animals, called conodonts, possessed rows of sharp, interlocking cone-shaped teeth that raked prey into their mouths.
哈密尔顿推测,当这片内陆海退去,亚马逊河豚却留了下来,逐渐进化为一种恐怖动物,与我们钟爱的鳍状肢动物,外貌上已大相径庭了。
When this inland sea retreated, Hamilton hypothesizes, the Amazon dolphins remained in the river basin, evolving into striking creatures that bear little resemblance to our beloved Flipper.
随着动物与植物花朵之间精妙的部件匹配完成——长舌头可以深入狭窄的花管,毛绒绒的面部则埋入了多刺的刷状花朵,传粉的问题很快迎刃而解。
Match the right animal and plant parts-long tongue poked into narrow tube, furry face pressed into sticky brush-and pollen is soon on its way.
和动物花粉转运系统一样,植物的花囊也发生了惊人的改变,有的从管状和槽状变形为瓣膜状、刷状和刺状。
Flower receptacles, like the animals' transport systems, are wonderfully varied, from tubes and gullets to flaps, brushes, and spurs.
虽然无毒,但蜈蚣也会让某些人的皮肤过敏,它们都是蠕虫状的动物。
Centipedes also carry venom that is not deadly but can be toxic to people who are allergic to other types of insect venoms. Both centipedes and millipedes are worm-like creatures.
因为鸟类羽毛和爬行动物的鳞片都包含黑素体——这是一种微小的囊状结构,其中包含了各种各样的黑色素,于是很多古生物学家开始怀疑恐龙羽毛是否也含有黑素体。
Bird feathers and reptile scales contain melanosomes-tiny sacs holding varieties of the pigment melanin. Many paleontologists suspected that dinosaur feathers also contained melanosomes.
已经灭绝了6500万年之久的菊石是一种带有多室螺旋状外壳的海洋头足类动物,其小室之间的阻隔即缝合线就是一种复杂的分形曲线。
Extinct for 65 million years, ammonites were Marine cephalopods that built chambered spiral shells. The walls between these Chambers, called sutures, were complex fractal curves.
动物研究表明,与锑难辨梭状芽孢杆菌,一种常见的细菌性腹泻造成干扰。
Animal research with Sb shows interference with Clostridium difficile, a common bacterial cause of diarrhea.
在动物中的圆形而扁平的盘状结构,如椎间盘。
A round flattened platelike structure in an animal such as an intervertebral disk.
环带,生殖带某些环节动物蠕虫表皮的膨胀、含腺的鞍状带,例如蚯蚓,分泌一种粘性液体而在其卵上形成一层防护层。
A swollen glandular saddlelike region in the epidermis of certain annelid worms such as the earthworm that secretes a viscous fluid to form a cocoon for their eggs.
有许多关于这两种巨型动物之间一决胜负的战斗的故事,在抹香鲸身上已见过吸盘状的伤口,以及胃中也发现过有巨型章鱼的残余。
Many stories of deadly battles between these two massive animals exist, and sperm whales have even been seen with suction cup-shaped wounds and remnants of giant squid in their stomachs.
黄昏丝毫没有使刺状的壁垒变柔和,然而变冷的气温和上升的湿气诱使许多夜行动物浮现。
Nightfall does nothing to soften the spiny ramparts, yet cooler temperatures and rising humidity entice many nocturnal creatures to emerge.
一只秃鹫大肠里的微生物群落主要由两种粪便厌氧菌组成,即梭状芽孢杆菌和梭状杆菌,这两种菌类对其他动物都是致命的。
The microbial flora in a vulture's large intestine is dominated by two types of anaerobic faecal bacteria, Clostridia and Fusobacteria, both of which can be deadly to other animals.
海豚一种海豚科海洋鲸类哺乳动物,如的宽吻海豚,与鲸近似但一般比鲸小且有喙状吻。
Any of various Marine cetacean mammals, such as the bottle - nosed dolphin, of the family Delphinidae, related to the whales but generally smaller and having a beaklike snout.
口侧的呈放射状对称动物之触角向外伸展的部位的,与这一部位有关的,位于这一部位的或口腔所在部位的。
Of, relating to, or located on the part of a radially symmetric animal from which the tentacles radiate or the side where the oral area is found.
放射状对称的动物,囊状身体覆有刺样结构的触须,只有一个开口;它们以珊瑚和水母的形式出现。
Radially symmetrical animals having saclike bodies with only one opening and tentacles with stinging structures; they occur in polyp and medusa forms.
放射状对称的动物,囊状身体覆有刺样结构的触须,只有一个开口;它们以珊瑚和水母的形式出现。
Radially symmetrical animals having saclike bodies with only one opening and tentacles with stinging structures; they occur in polyp and medusa forms.
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