研究人员使用上述数据来调查被进一步削弱前的化石的内部。
The researchers are using the data to survey the body's interior before chipping away further on the fossil.
地质学家正在调查位于早期人类化石发现地之下的碳酸盐岩的化学组成。
Geologists are investigating the chemical composition of carbonate rocks that lie beneath the surfaces where early human fossils have been uncovered.
犹他州地质调查局的Donald Deblieux带领的研究者们相信雷兽化石的某些特征可能意味着这是一个新物种。
The researchers, led by Donald Deblieux of the Utah Geological Survey, believe that certain features of the brontothere fossil may mean it is a new species.
来自犹他州地质调查局的地质学者在2005年绘制该山脉岩层时发现了这块化石。
Geologists from the Utah Geological Survey found the fossil while mapping rock layers in the mountain in 2005.
五年前，美国国土安全部调查了一起运自泰国的可疑货物案件，发现了一块史前的骨骼化石。
Five years ago, the United States Department of Homeland Security investigated what it considered a suspicious shipment from Thailand and found instead a prehistoric bone.
调查者在研究挪威的恐龙化石时发现，在一亿三千七百万年之前，海水温度从13度急剧降到4度。
Researchers studying fossils in Norway have discovered that the world's seas plummeted 9C from 13C to just 4C around 137million years ago.
送去日本调查了后发现这件化石可能是五十万年前耶﹐生做像北京原人﹐但是艾等到今年七月才有法度确定。
Preliminary studies in Japan indicated that this fossil may be half a million years old and resembles the Peking man fossil, although the final results will not be available until July this year.
因此，即使最勤快的化石猎人在暴露的化石盘地被泥土和尘灰覆盖前也只能搜索一小部分，而之后就永远失去了进一步的调查机会。
As a result, even the most diligent fossil hunters can search only a small fraction of the exposed fossil beds before they are covered by earth and dust, and lost to researchers forever.
因此，即使最勤快的化石猎人在暴露的化石盘地被泥土和尘灰覆盖前也只能搜索一小部分，而之后就永远失去了进一步的调查机会。
As a result, even the most diligent fossil hunters can search only a small fraction of the exposed fossil beds before they are covered by earth and dust, and lost to researchers forever.
应用推荐