在每一次物种大灭绝后,都有一次突然的进化爆发,因为会有新物种出现来填补灭绝创造的生态位。
Following each mass extinction, there is a sudden evolutionary burst as new species develop to fill the ecological niches opened by the event.
一个原始物种可能已经适应了利用一个岛屿上特定的生态位,然后在水上迁徙到其他岛屿定居。
An ancestral species might have adapted to exploit a particular ecological niche on one island and then traveled over water to colonize other islands.
他们究竟填补了哪些进化中的生态位有待讨论,主要是因为在过去50年里没有人见过棘龙的骨骼。
Just what evolutionary niche they filled is up for debate, largely because no one has seen a spinosaurus skeleton for the last 50 years.
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