最近发现的一个翼龙标本覆盖着长、密、相对厚的毛发状化石材料,这是第一个明确的证据,证明他的推理是正确的。
The recent discovery of a pterosaur specimen covered in long, dense, and relatively thick hairlike fossil material was the first clear evidence that his reasoning was correct.
根据有限的化石材料很难勾勒出远古艺术的面貌。
It's very difficult to sketch the whole picture of prehistoric art just according to very limited fossil materials.
东北地区出土的旧石器时代人类化石、文化遗物和动物化石材料十分丰富。
The material of human fossil, culture relic and zoolite in the Old Stone Age, which are excavated in the Northeast of China, are very abundant.
另外,在寒冷的环境发现的猛犸毛发数量丰富,它们也不像骨骼和肌肉等携带了解剖学信息的化石材料一样被认为有重要价值。
Moreover, mammoth hair is found in copious quantities in cold environments and it is not regarded as fossil material of enormous value like bone or muscle, which also carries anatomical information.
“我不知道怎样解释这个东西,但是至少得等到有更多真实的化石材料可研究才能盖棺定论,仅凭一块手指骨,”他说“现在就提出有新的史前人类还为时过早。”
“I don’t know what to make of this, at least not until there is more substantial fossil material than a partial finger bone, ” he says. “It may be going too far to propose a new hominid.”
“我不知道怎样解释这个东西,但是至少得等到有更多真实的化石材料可研究才能盖棺定论,仅凭一块手指骨,”他说“现在就提出有新的史前人类还为时过早。”
“I don’t know what to make of this, at least not until there is more substantial fossil material than a partial finger bone, ” he says. “It may be going too far to propose a new hominid.”
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