Washing, brushing and varnishing fossils—all standard conservation treatments used by many fossil hunters and museum curators alike—vastly reduces the chances of recovering ancient DNA.
化石清洗、刷洗和涂清漆——所有这些许多化石猎人和博物馆馆长都采用的标准保护措施——极大地降低了恢复古代 DNA 的机会。
Fossil hunters have unearthed the bones of an elephant believed to be 500,000 years old.
化石寻找者们挖掘出了一头被认为有50万年之久的大象遗骨。
Fossil hunters first glimpsed the new species in 1992 when a tooth belonging to Ardipithecus was spotted among pebbles in the desert near Aramis.
化石猎人首次得以瞥见这个新物种是在1992年，当时他们在阿拉米斯村附近沙漠的砾石中发现了一颗属于阿迪猿系猿人的牙齿。
The remains were unearthed at Floraville Station in northern Queensland - a region that has attracted scientists and fossil hunters for decades.
出土的遗骸在弗洛·拉维尔站北昆士兰-这已引起科学家们几十年来对化石猎人和地区的关注。
Fossil hunters have uncovered the remains of an ancient Marine ecosystem that arose in the aftermath of the most devastating mass extinction in Earth's history.
化石研究人员已经发现的古海洋生态系统残骸，是出现在迄今为止，地球历史上最为严重的一次生物灭绝中。
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。
October 17, 2008—Fossil hunters searching woods behind a suburban shopping mall have scored a basement bargain: a piece of rock with the oldest known impression of a flying insect (above).
马萨诸塞州的化石搜集团队，在城郊商场后面的树林里搜寻的时候，发现了这块印有古老昆虫足迹的化石。 按专家的说法，这好比“中了彩票大奖”。
Norwegian fossil hunters recovered the rear half of the formidable reptile's skull in south-west Spitsbergen in what has been described as one of the most significant Jurassic discoveries ever made.
在斯匹次卑尔根岛西南部，挪威寻化石者寻找到了这种可怕的爬行动物头骨的后半部，被称为有史以来侏罗纪化石的一个最重要的发现。
Norwegian fossil hunters recovered the rear half of the formidable reptile's skull in south-west Spitsbergen in what has been described as one of the most significant Jurassic discoveries ever made.
在斯匹次卑尔根岛西南部，挪威寻化石者寻找到了这种可怕的爬行动物头骨的后半部，被称为有史以来侏罗纪化石的一个最重要的发现。
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