这种爬行动物的皮肤坚韧并带有鳞片。
巨型蟾蜍和安第斯鬣蜥是爬行动物的代表。
The Giant Toad and Andean Iguana are some examples of reptiles.
尽管其他皮质永久丧失，爬行动物的大脑仍在自动运行。
The reptilian brain is functioning on autopilot despite the permanent loss of other cortexes.
从那种意义上来说，比起其他爬行动物的大脑它们更接近哺乳动物的大脑。
In that sense, they are closer to mammals' brains than other reptiles' brains.
爬行动物的骨骼生长在本质上是周期性的，在骨头上产生一系列的同心圆，就像树木的年轮一样。
Bone growth in reptiles is periodic in nature, producing a series of concentric rings in the bone, not unlike the growth rings of a tree.
这是盘龙目爬行动物的一科。
爬行动物的脑袋很像婴儿的大脑。
有些爬行动物的尾巴被割掉后可以重新长出来。
Some reptiles can regrow their tails when they are cut away.
最原始的羽毛是单纤维，类似于刚毛，从爬行动物的皮肤上突出来。
Feathers in their most primitive form were single filaments, resembling quills, that jutted from reptilian skin.
引起对这类爬行动物的恐慌是来自佛罗里达沼泽的缅甸蟒蛇。
The spread of Burmese pythons in the Florida Everglades is responsible for sparking this wave of herpetophobia.
直到最近，人们都没有真正想过要通过实验测得爬行动物的智商到底如何。
For, until recently, no one had actually thought to ask by experimentation just how intelligent reptiles really are.
不过怀疑者声称这种结构不过是被撕碎的胶原纤维，而中华龙鸟有着光滑的爬行动物的皮肤。
Skeptics have claimed that the structures were just shredded collagen fibers and that Sinosauropteryx had a smooth reptilian skin.
与鲸鱼尸体构成的生态系统类似的物种可能依靠着亿万年来死去的海洋爬行动物的尸体生存。
Species similar to those at whale falls may have depended on dead Marine reptiles for hundreds of millions of years.
他认为观察到的这些昆虫捕食爬行动物的现象引发了对之前所持对淡水生境中捕食动态观点的疑问。
He suggests that these observations of bugs predating reptiles call into question previously held opinions about predator-prey dynamics in freshwater habitats.
有时，牠们因为牠们好奇的行为以及因为牠们可怜的视力靠得太近而受到老虎或者爬行动物的打击。
Sometimes they have been overwhelmed by Tigers or Phytons because of their curious behaviour and because of their poor eye sight they get too close for comfort.
科学界中，普遍接受的观点认为，大型爬行动物的灭绝是由巨型陨石对墨西哥尤卡坦海岸的冲击引起的。
The idea that the giant reptiles met their demise because of a gigantic meteorite impact off the Yucatan coast of Mexico has become one of the most widely accepted in science.
鸭嘴兽介于哺乳类与爬行类之间，因为它仍然具备许多爬行动物的特征，如产卵，而这些特征在我们身上已经消失了。
And that puts them somewhere between mammals and reptiles, because they still maintain quite a lot of reptilian characteristics that we've lost, for instance they still lay eggs.
所以这样看来，变色龙效应远非是冷血的爬行动物的一种自我保护，而确实是对促进社交互动而表现出的热情响应。
So the 'chameleon effect', far from being the preserve of cold-blooded reptiles, is actually a warm response facilitating social interactions.
虽然研究人员承认研究中的雌蟒有可能是基因突变的怪物，但是他们认为生物学家们应该重新思考爬行动物的繁殖行为。
While researchers admit that the female in the study may have been a genetic freak, they say the findings should press researchers to re-think reptile reproduction.
就在同时，其他科学家们开始通过检验现代爬行动物的鳞片来试图阐明羽毛的起源，因为爬行动物与鸟类之间的亲缘关系最为接近。
In the meantime, other scientists sought to illuminate the origin of feathers by examining the scales of modern reptiles, the closest living relatives of birds. Both scales and feathers are flat.
就在同时，其他科学家们开始通过检验现代爬行动物的鳞片来试图阐明羽毛的起源，因为爬行动物与鸟类之间的亲缘关系最为接近。
In the meantime, other scientists sought to illuminate the origin of feathers by examining the scales of modern reptiles, the closest living relatives of birds.
过去三十年来，国内外一直进行着这些沉重的爬行动物的交易。把这些蛇买回家的宠物拥有者，在它们长大以后，往往没有地方给它们住。
Over the past 30years, these weighty reptiles have been traded domestically andinternationally, and pet owners often take these snakes into homes thatcannot accommodate them as they grow.
始祖鸟拥有羽毛，它身上既有现代鸟类的特征，也有远古爬行动物的痕迹，例如口中有牙齿，翅膀上有爪子，还有一条硕长的骨质尾巴。
It had feathers and other traits of living birds but also vestiges of a reptilian past, such as teeth in its mouth, claws on its wings, and a long, bony tail.
而更大规模的灭绝发生在25100万年前二叠纪末期，致使世界上70%的陆地脊椎动物(和96%的海洋动物)死亡，同时造就了爬行动物的时代。
A bigger mass extinction, at the end of the Permian period 251m years ago, killed 70% of the world's land vertebrates (and 96% of all Marine animals) and paved the way for the age of reptiles.
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.
杰森·沃特森是澳大利亚维多利亚州南部野生动植物仙境公园的所有者，按照此人的说法，园内工人于3月18日清晨发现装满爬行动物的池子遭到小偷的光顾。
Jason Watson, owner of the Wildlife Wonderland park in southern Victoria state, said workers found reptile tanks raided on Sunday morning.
而他的确有一个疑问，这个疑问也许对解释以下问题有所裨益，那就是除去对物种的偏见之外，还有什么原因使得人们之前未展开适当的研究来测定爬行动物的智商。
He does, however, have a problem-and it is one that might help to explain why, besides phylogenetic prejudice, the lizard mind has not been properly investigated before.
海龟是带壳的爬行动物。
它们的头骨、骨盆和后脚属于爬行动物。
它们的头骨、骨盆和后脚属于爬行动物。
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