化石中的生物是一种和乌鸦体型相仿的原始鸟类,当它在湖面上盘旋时,突然袭来的火山灰使其窒息而亡。
The fossil was a primitive bird the size of a crow that may have been asphyxiated by volcanic fumes as it wheeled above the lakes all those millions of years ago.
后来成为国家地质博物馆馆长的季强买下了李应方发现的化石标本,因为羽毛结构的缘故,他推测这是一种以前从未发现过的原始鸟类。
Because of the feathers, Ji Qiang, then the director of the National Geological Museum, which bought one of Li's slabs, assumed it was a new species of primitive bird.
它的美味食谱中包括各种各样的鹦鹉嘴龙(parrot-beaked psittacosaur)、海龟、原始鸟类以及一些那些去它居住地附近的这片古湖喝水、个小而又四处乱跑的恐龙。
It would have enjoyed a varied diet of parrot-beaked psittacosaurs, turtles, primitive birds and a host of small, scampering dinosaurs that would have watered at the ancient lakes it lived near.
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