They were the ancient Australian megafauna—huge animals of the Pleistocene epoch.
它们是古代澳大利亚的巨型动物——更新世时期的巨型动物。
In 1991, she discovered megafauna bones directly adjacent to stone tools—a headline-making find.
1991年，她在石器附近发现了巨型动物的骨头——这是头条新闻。
Actually, the proposal focuses on a particular subset of megafauna, the kind that lived during the Pleistocene epoch.
实际上，这个提案关注的是生活在更新世时期的巨型动物的一个特定子集。
If that dating is accurate, it would mean humans and megafauna coexisted in Australia for something like 20,000 years.
如果那个日期是准确的，那就意味着人类和巨型动物在澳大利亚共存了大约2万年。
The more basic problem with Flannery's thesis is that there is no direct evidence that they killed any Australian megafauna.
弗兰纳里论文中更基本的问题是，没有直接证据表明它们杀死了任何澳大利亚的巨型动物。
What happened to Australia's megafauna, the giant animals that once existed across this enormous continent?
曾经生活在澳大利亚这片广袤大陆上的巨型动物经历了什么？
"What 'Cuddie Springs' demonstrates is that you have an extended overlap of humans and megafauna," Field says.
“‘抱抱弹簧’所展现的是，你与人类和巨型动物存在着广泛的共通之处。”菲尔德说。
One is to help prevent the extinction of some endangered megafauna by providing new refuges, new habitats for them.
一个方法是通过提供新的避难所、新的栖息地来帮助防止一些濒危巨型动物的灭绝。
A big worry is that these transplanted megafauna might devastate plants and animals that are native to the western United States.
最让人忧心的就是这些转移过来的巨型动物可能会毁灭美国西部一些土生土长的动植物。
Another example is the interaction of megafauna with local flora, in particular, plants that rely on animals to disperse their seeds.
另一个例子就是巨型动物和本地植物群的相互联系，尤其是那些仅依赖动物传播种子的植物。
The debate about megafauna pivots to a great degree on the techniques for dating old bones and the sediments in which they are buried.
关于巨型动物的争论在很大程度上取决于确定古老骨骼和埋藏它们的沉积物年代的技术。
Paleontologist Peter Murray has studied a rock painting in far northern Australia that shows what looks very much like a megafauna marsupial known as Palorchestes.
古生物学家彼得·默里在澳大利亚北部研究过一幅岩画，画中显示的非常像是一种被叫做袋貘的巨型有袋动物。
Take a select group of animals, megafauna from places like Africa and Asia, and introduce them into other ecosystems similar to their current homes, beginning in the United States.
从非洲和亚洲等地挑选一群巨型动物，把它们引入到与它们现在的家园类似的其他生态系统中，首先从美国开始。
The disappearance of megafauna in America—mammoths, saber-toothed cats, giant sloths, among others—happened relatively soon after the arrival of human beings, about 13,000 years ago.
美洲巨型动物的消失——猛犸象、剑齿猫、巨型树懒等等——发生在人类出现后不久，大约在一万三千年前。
As a way of repairing some of that damage, a group of conservation biologists has proposed an ambitious, or some might say, a radical plan, involving large vertebrates, or, megafauna.
一群自然保护生物学家提出了一个雄心勃勃的计划——或者有人会说，这是一个激进的计划——即，把大型脊椎动物或巨型动物包含在计划中，作为修复部分损害的一种方法。
In the years since the Pleistocene epoch, native species have adapted to the changing environmental there, plants, smaller animals, they have been evolving without megafauna for millennia.
在更新世以来的这些年里，当地的物种已经适应了那里不断变化的环境，植物，小动物，它们已经在没有巨型动物的情况下进化了几千年。
Nor were all the strange creatures charismatic, mammalian megafauna.
但是，并不是所有奇怪的物种都是像哺乳动物一样是有灵性的。
We'd know a whole lot about charismatic megafauna , and not very much about much else.
我们就只能了解那些有魅力的大群落，对其它的物种就不太了解了。
Yellowstone is widely considered to be the finest megafauna wildlife habitat in the lower 48 states.
人们广泛地认为黄石地区是美国本土48个州最好的巨型动物群的野生生物栖息地。
The slow-moving behemoth had been crossing a volcanic plain 100,000 years ago, when megafauna still walked tall.
这种移动缓慢的庞然大物十万年前曾穿越维多利亚平原，那时巨型动物仍然盛行在大陆上。
"I was extremely surprised that local 'community memory' of the Yangtze megafauna is being lost so rapidly," Turvey says.
“当地人对长江巨型动物的‘社区记忆’消失地如此之快，我对此感到非常震惊，”特维说。
The climate may have changed due to a dramatic fall in atmospheric methane when these animals, or "megafauna", disappeared.
在这些动物，即“巨型土壤动物”消失以后，沼气量的急剧下降可能造成了气候的改变。
The charismatic megafauna may get all the attention, but it's amoebas, nematodes and microbes that make up the bulk of life on Earth.
魅力十足的巨型动物可能抓住了所有人的眼球，但是变形虫，线形虫还有微生物才是地球上占大多数的生命。
The charismatic megafauna suffering most from climate change may well be the wolverine—a vicious predator known for its uncanny strength and tenacity.
受气候变化影响最大的动物种群可能是狼獾——一种以其神奇的力量和韧性闻名的残暴的捕食者，现实中的金刚狼。
Their thirst for hunting is blamed by some experts for the sudden disappearance of mammoths, mastodons and other large 'megafauna' mammals from the continent.
一些专家指责，这些克劳·维斯人对狩猎的渴望是猛犸象、乳齿象以及巨型哺乳动物群从大陆突然消失的原因。
After the literary megafauna of the 1990s — like David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest and Don DeLillo's Underworld — the novels of the aughts embraced quirkiness and uniqueness.
经历了上世纪90年代的“大文学现象”后——例如大卫•福斯特•华莱士的《可笑至极》和唐里奥的《地下世界》——小说的一切又转向了追求离奇和独特。
Forget polar bears or penguins. The charismatic megafauna suffering most from climate change may well be the wolverine-a vicious predator known for its uncanny strength and tenacity.
别老惦记着北极熊和企鹅了，狼獾才是气候变暖中苦大仇深的标志性大型动物。
Forget polar bears or penguins. The charismatic megafauna suffering most from climate change may well be the wolverine-a vicious predator known for its uncanny strength and tenacity.
别老惦记着北极熊和企鹅了，狼獾才是气候变暖中苦大仇深的标志性大型动物。
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