In 1969, a fossil hunter named Rod Wells came to Naracoorte in South Australia to explore what was then known as Victoria Cave.
1969年，一位名叫罗德·威尔斯的化石猎人来到南澳大利亚的那拉科特，探索当时被称为维多利亚洞穴的地方。
A fossil formed so long after birds emerged does not, in truth, shed much light on that debate.
事实上，一个在鸟类出现很久之后形成的化石并没有使得这一论战明朗化。
In the case of this latest discovery, a fossil attributed to a dinosaur was determined to be a bird.
在最新的发现案例中，一个先前被归类为恐龙的化石被鉴定为属于鸟类。
Now this is the simplest type of nuclear power plant and exactly replicates what is done in a fossil plant.
现在，这是核能电站最简单的类型，那也重复了在化石电站里会做的事情。
Though Hurum has been digging for decades, he insists that "discovering a fossil is like finding gold every time."
虽然已经有了几十年的化石挖掘经验，但胡拉姆依然乐此不疲，在他看来，“每次找到一块化石就如同发现了金子一般令人兴奋。”
A fossil cannot be ancestral to something older than itself any more than a daughter can give birth to her own mother.
一块化石不可能衍生出比自身历史更长的东西，这就如同一个女儿不可能生下自己的母亲。
Just below this time stamp was our first destination: a bush-pocked flat where a fossil jawbone had been found in 1994.
这个时间标识点的下方区域才是我们此次探寻的首要目的地：在这一片灌木丛生的平地处，1994年曾发掘出一块颌骨化石。
A fossil from an extinct relative of the rhinoceros, Telataceras, set the record for highest vertebrate fossil found in Utah.
一具属于犀牛业已灭绝的一支近亲——Telataceras——的化石创造了犹他州所发现的最高有脊椎动物化石的记录。
There is no easy way to compare the efficiency of an electric vehicle—plug-in hybrid or pure electric—with a fossil-fuelled equivalent.
但问题也由此而生，如今并没有一种简单易行的方法能够比较电动汽车（如插座充电式混合动力或纯电动汽车）与传统的燃油汽车之间的系统效率。
This line of thinking raised an exciting possibility: Perhaps language left a fossil record after all-not in buried bones, but in our DNA.
这种思路展现了一种激动人心的可能性：语言可能留下了化石纪录——不是埋在地下的骨头，而是在我们的DNA当中。
The bioethanol that Ineos produces will have to be combined with a fossil fuel, however, because very few cars in Britain can run solely on bioethanol.
然而，英力士生产的生物乙醇需要和化石燃料搭配使用，原因是英国的汽车一般都不能单独燃烧生物乙醇。
Discovering direct evidence of what a fossil animal ate, rather than having to infer it from details such as the shape of its teeth, is always valuable.
发现一种动物以何为食的直接证据非常的有价值，我们不用再从它们的牙齿形状来推测它们吃什么了。
Speaking to CBC News, Ian Miller, the museum's curator of paleontology said: 'It is truly uncommon to get all parts of a fossil ecosystem preserved in one place.
在接受加拿大广播公司采访时，该博物馆的古生物馆长伊恩·米勒（IanMiller）说：'在一个地方同时发现整个生态系统的化石，这是十分罕见的。
That is interesting. Discovering direct evidence of what a fossil animal ate, rather than having to infer it from details such as the shape of its teeth, is always valuable.
比起根据其牙齿形状等细节来推测出结果，找出古生物吃什么的直接证据是有价值的。
As a fossil hunter, Shubin distinguished himself by leading an expedition to the Arctic in 2004 which uncovered the remains of a fish with a wrist, a creature with part fin, part limb.
作为一名化石搜寻者，舒宾的杰出成就是在2004年带领了一次北极探险。在这次探险中，他们发现了一种半鳍半肢的动物——一条有腕的鱼化石。
Yet while this sort of chemical recipe was already shown in the 90s to work with a pure gas, the sort of emissions that come from a fossil fuel power station are typically full of impurities.
然而，尽管这种'纯'气体方式的化学处理方案在上世纪90年代已经问世，但化石燃料电厂排放出的废气通常杂质很多。
Also aiding in the reliability of a system running completely on wind, water, and solar power, the authors say, is that it would need about a third less energy than a fossil-fired system.
另外，作者提到，为了维护完全依靠风能、水能和太阳能系统运营的稳定性，要借助第三个较少的能源，而不是靠化石燃烧的系统。
He was responsible for the the recognition of geological strata, and the theory that successive layers of geological formations (strata) contained a fossil record of life in chronological order.
地层的发现以及连续的地质构造(地层)包含的化石记录了按时间顺序出现的生命的理论都有他的功劳。
Paul Wignall and others have found sites where marine fossil deposits reached a peak of diversity at the very end of the Permian period.
保罗·维格纳尔和其他人发现了在二叠纪末期海洋化石沉积达到多样性高峰的地点。
Geigl and her colleagues looked at 3200-year-old fossil bones belonging to a single individual of an extinct cattle species called an aurochs.
盖格尔和她的同事们研究了3200年前的骨头化石，这些骨头属于一种已经灭绝的叫做欧洲野牛的种类。
The fossil record of late Campanian tyrannosauroids of western North America has a geographic gap.
北美西部晚期的坎帕阶霸王龙的化石记录存在地理差异。
"As long as we're consuming fossil fuels, we're putting out CO2," says Klaus Lackner, a geophysicist at Columbia University.
“只要我们还在消耗化石燃料，我们就在排放二氧化碳。”哥伦比亚大学的地球物理学家克劳斯· 拉克内说。
Close examination of those fossil deposits now reveals a somewhat different story.
对那些化石沉积物的仔细研究现在揭示了一个有点不同的故事。
We can make a very good estimate from the fossil record that humans probably evolved naked skin around a million and a half years ago.
根据化石记录，我们可以更准确地判断出：人类可能在大约150万年前进化出了裸露的皮肤。
A slightly younger fossil formation containing animal remains is the Tommotian formation, named after a locale in Russia.
一个较新的包含动物遗骸的化石地层是托莫特地层，它以俄罗斯的一个地区命名。
While Lombroso was measuring criminals, a Belgian palaeontologist called Louis Dollo was studying fossil records and coming to the opposite conclusion.
当隆布罗索在衡量罪犯时，一位名叫路易斯·多洛的比利时古生物学家正在研究化石记录，并得出了相反的结论。
While Lombroso was measuring criminals, a Belgian palaeontologist called Louis Dollo was studying fossil records and coming to the opposite conclusion.
当隆布罗索在衡量罪犯时，一位名叫路易斯·多洛的比利时古生物学家正在研究化石记录，并得出了相反的结论。
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