一些古生物学家认为这些胡须是简单的羽毛。
Some paleontologists argued that these whiskers were simple feathers.
科学家迈克·奥吉说：“这是澳大利亚古生物学的圣地。”
Scientist Mike Augee says that, "This is a sacred site in Australian paleontology."
翼龙是第一批会飞的脊椎动物，它的化石遗迹已经吸引了古生物学家两个多世纪。
The fossil remains of the first flying vertebrates, the pterosaurs, have intrigued paleontologists for more than two centuries.
蒙大拿州立大学的古生物学家霍纳怀疑那些短暴龙的遗骸可能属于一只年轻的雷克斯霸王龙。
Horner, a paleontologist at Montana State University, suspects the remains of Nanotyrranus may belong to a young Tyrannosaurus rex.
20世纪20年代，一位古生物学家在一个装着蛋的巢穴附近发现了一只小恐龙的化石遗迹。
In the 1920s, a paleontologist discovered the fossil remains of a small dinosaur near a nest containing eggs.
在埃及沙漠中挖掘时，古生物学家们发现了巨大的骨骼化石，这似乎是有史以来体型第二大的恐龙。
While digging in the Egyptian desert, huge fossil bones have been found by paleontologists, which appears to have been the second most massive dinosaur that ever lived.
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。
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.
当隆布罗索在衡量罪犯时，一位名叫路易斯·多洛的比利时古生物学家正在研究化石记录，并得出了相反的结论。
While Lombroso was measuring criminals, a Belgian palaeontologist called Louis Dollo was studying fossil records and coming to the opposite conclusion.
然而，这个7亿年历史的地层几乎不能为现代动物的起源提供任何线索，因为古生物学家认为它代表的是一个失败的进化试验。
This 700-million-year-old formation gives few clues to the origins of modern animals, however, because paleontologists believe it represents an evolutionary experiment that failed.
虽然在地质记录中有十几次甚至更多的大灭绝，但白垩纪的大灭绝总是引起古生物学家的兴趣，因为它标志着恐龙时代的结束。
While there are a dozen or more mass extinctions in the geological record, the Cretaceous mass extinction has always intrigued paleontologists because it marks the end of the age of the dinosaurs.
断点平衡论试着去解释化石记录的一个古怪的特点——在超过一个世纪的时间里，这一特点已经为古生物学者所熟悉，但一直被忽视。
The punctuated equilibrium hypothesis attempts to explain a curious feature of the fossil record—one that has been familiar to paleontologists for more than a century but has usually been ignored.
尽管de Ricqlès 极力主张谨慎对待，主张恐龙生理学的一种中间类型，但这一代古生物学家已经开始相信恐龙骨骼与哺乳动物相似。
Although de Ricqlès urged caution, arguing for an intermediate type of dinosaur physiology, a generation of paleontologists has come to believe that dinosaur bone is mammalian like.
由于许多古生物学家的工作仅基于化石的形状，因此其保存方法并非旨在保存DNA。
Because many palaeontologists base their work on the shape of fossils alone, their methods of conservation are not designed to preserve DNA.
如果一种古代动物有看起来像鹿角的结构，古生物学家就会争论说它可能像麋鹿或驼鹿那样使用鹿角。
If an ancient animal had structures that looked like antlers, palaeontologists would argue that it probably used them as an elk or moose.
“重龙”是由一位古生物学家在1890年命名的。
几十年来，古生物学家们已经知道了一群被称为蜥脚类动物的恐龙的起源和结局。
Paleontologists have known for decades about the beginnings and endings of a group of dinosaurs known as the Sauropodomorpha.
我最近遇到一位古生物气象学家。
澳大利亚哺乳动物学家兼古生物学家，蒂姆·弗兰妮，是一个环境方面的名人。
Tim Flannery, an Australian mammalogist and palaeontologist, is an environmental celebrity.
现代鱼类的分解方式与远古生物的类似。
The way modern fish fall apart is similar to the way ancient creatures did.
找出古生物吃什么的直接证据是有价值的。
最新证据证实，恐龙这种远古生物跟它的现代后裔鸟类一样，都是温血动物。
New evidence appears to confirm that the ancient creatures were endothermic, or warm-blooded, like their modern descendants - birds.
然而，这片古生物乐土却隐藏了一个秘密：如此大量的死亡并不是一次事件导致的。
Yet this palaeontological paradise holds a dark secret: the mass deaths were not caused by a single event.
但对其重要性进行的彻底的重新评估表明，古生物化石可以成为新思维诞生的沃土。
But the radical reassessment of its importance shows how ancient fossils remain a fertile field for new thinking.
比起根据其牙齿形状等细节来推测出结果，找出古生物吃什么的直接证据是有价值的。
That is interesting. Discovering direct evidence of what a fossil animal ate, rather than having to infer it from details such as the shape of its teeth, is always valuable.
根据德国的一项遗传研究显示无尾熊、袋鼠、负鼠和袋熊都带有美洲古生物的共同特征。
The characteristic koalas, kangaroos, possums and wombats of Australia share a common American ancestor, according to genetic research from Germany.
他们不是发现了一个与远古生物雷同的活化石，而是发现了一个与现代生物一致的真化石。
Instead of finding a living fossil identical to an ancient beast, they have found a real fossil identical to a modern one.
根据对牙齿形状及其他特征的分析，研究员们判断这种古生物极有可能是非洲啮齿动物的近亲。
The researchers describe how the shape of the teeth and other factors point to the ancient animals being most closely related to African rodents.
外星人，或仅仅是一架外星探测器，可能在很久前已访问过地球，并在一些古生物中注入了讯息。
Aliens, or even just an alien probe, could have visited Earth long ago and inserted a message into some ancestral creature.
它还不是最怪异的，最让人啧啧称奇的当属被剑桥大学西蒙·康韦•莫瑞斯称为怪诞虫的古生物。
Weirdest of all was Hallucigenia, described by Simon Conway Morris, of the University of Cambridge.
研究人员希望这种激光能帮助法医或者生物学家，理论上讲他们就能更加了解古生物的饮食结构了。
The researchers hope that it could be used for forensic science or by biologists exploring ruins - in theory they will be able to find out far more about the diet of ancient fossils they find。
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