Specimens from all over the world come in, still encased in the rock or mud where they were found, and it's the job of the fossil preparators to get the skulls, femurs and teeth out.
世界各地的标本在被运到这里时,还被密封在岩石或发现源地的污泥之中,只有经过化石准备工作以后,那些头颅、股骨和牙齿才能显露出来。
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。
The sand around him was strewn with fossil shark teeth, sea urchin spines, and the bones of giant catfish.
四周的沙粒,散落着鲨鱼牙齿、海胆脊椎、巨型鲶鱼的化石。
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。
Dr Tafforeau first saw the light, as it were, in 2000, when he found himself unhappy at having to cut up the teeth of fossil primates in order to study the fine details of their enamel.
Tafforeau博士第一次发现加速器的妙用,还是在2000年时。那时他十分厌倦于为了研究灵掌类牙齿釉质而必须切下化石上的牙齿。
Many fossil apes are represented only by jaws and teeth, leaving us with little or no idea about their posture and locomotion, brain size or body mass.
许多化石猿只发现了颚骨与牙齿,牠们的身体姿势、进模式、量、重,我们一无所知。
Body sizes for fossil taxa were estimated using regressions of body weight based on the area of the first lower molar for most species and on other teeth or limb bones for a few species.
大多数化石种类的体重通过下第一臼齿面积与体重的回归公式来估计,少数种类用其他牙齿或肢骨来估计。
You may wonder how the expert on fossil remains is able to trace descent through teeth, which seem specious pegs upon which to hang whole ancestries.
你也许会感到疑惑遗留的化石专家怎么可能通过看似华而不实的借口的牙齿来追踪后裔呢?而这些借口却又是整个家族的荣誉所在。
You may wonder how the expert on fossil remains is able to trace descent through teeth, which seem specious pegs upon which to hang whole ancestries.
你也许会感到疑惑遗留的化石专家怎么可能通过看似华而不实的借口的牙齿来追踪后裔呢?而这些借口却又是整个家族的荣誉所在。
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