The fossils at Dinosaur Cove are embedded in hard sandstone.
恐龙湾中的化石嵌在坚硬的砂岩中。
Both these fossils were dry-land tortoises.
这两块化石都是旱地陆龟。
The fossils look like dolphins and they surely lived like dolphins, in the water.
这些化石看起来像海豚，它们肯定像海豚一样在水中生活。
With a reputation of "living fossils", pandas live a harmonious life in the city of Chengdu.
有着“活化石”之称的熊猫在成都市过着和谐美满的生活。
It doesn’t mean that best practice has become widespread among those who actually find the fossils.
这并不意味着那些确实发现了化石的人们已经广泛采用了最佳做法。
The Burgess Shale formation also has fossils of many extinct representatives of modern animal groups.
伯吉斯页岩地层中也有许多代表着现代动物群中已经灭绝的物种的化石。
They say the fossils have been moved from their original resting places and redeposited in younger sediments.
他们说，这些化石已经从原来的安息地转移到更年轻的沉积物中。
Missing until recently were fossils clearly intermediate, or transitional, between land mammals and cetaceans.
直到最近才发现的化石，显然是介于陆地哺乳动物和鲸类之间的过渡物种。
Better conservation methods and a focus on fresh fossils could boost DNA extraction from more delicate specimens.
更好的保护方法和对新化石的关注可以帮助我们从更脆弱的标本中提取DNA 。
Between the older layers of glacial material were well-developed soils containing fossils of warm-climate plants.
较古老的冰川物质层之间是发育良好的土壤，它含有（生活在）温暖气候中的植物的化石。
They found fossils of microscopic marine plants which suggest that the region was once open ocean, not solid ice.
他们发现了微型海洋植物的化石，表明该地区曾经是开放的海洋，而不是坚固的冰层。
By following the fossils, Smith was able to put all the strata of England's earth into relative temporal sequence.
通过研究这些化石，史密斯能够把英国土地所有的地层按相对的时间顺序排列起来。
The study makes a couple of interesting points about the fossils, which I hope will be looked at in future studies.
这项研究提出了一些关于化石的有趣论点，我希望未来的研究会考虑到这些观点。
In any case, failure to find fossils of a predicted kind does not rule out their existence in an undiscovered deposit.
在任何情况下，没有发现预测到的化石并不表示它们不存在于未发现的矿床中。
Detailed field studies of thick rock formations containing fossils provide the best potential tests of the competing theories.
对含有化石的厚岩层的详细现场研究为相互竞争的理论提供了最佳的潜在检验。
As he collected fossils from strata throughout England, Smith began to see that the fossils told a different story from the rocks.
当史密斯在英国各地的地层中收集化石时，他开始发现这些化石讲述的故事与岩石不同。
Although most fossils are found in marine sedimentary rocks, they also are found in terrestrial deposits left by streams and lakes.
虽然大多数化石是在海洋沉积岩中发现的，但它们也存在于河流和湖泊所留下的陆地沉积物中。
Since adult dinosaur fossils have sometimes been discovered near or on top of nests, we've been looking at the dinosaur parenting behavior.
由于成年恐龙化石有时在巢穴附近或巢穴顶部被发现，我们一直在观察恐龙的育儿行为。
Because many palaeontologists base their work on the shape of fossils alone, their methods of conservation are not designed to preserve DNA.
由于许多古生物学家的工作仅基于化石的形状，因此其保存方法并非旨在保存DNA。
Dinosaur fossils have been found in postures that we now believe to indicate brooding behavior, that is, sitting on the eggs until they hatch.
我们现在认为恐龙化石被发现时的姿势表明孵蛋的行为，也就是说，坐在蛋上直到蛋孵化。
By fossils, we mean traces of prehistoric animals such as bones, which become mineralized, or impressions of bones or organs that are left in stone.
我们所说的化石，指的是史前动物的遗迹，如已矿化的骨头，或留在石头上的骨头或器官的印痕。
We are trying to understand the biology of sauropods, comparing their fossils to the anatomy of modern animals to get a better idea of how they lived.
我们正在尝试了解蜥脚类动物的生物学，比较它们的化石和现代动物的解剖结构，以更好了解它们是如何生活的。
While rock between two consistent strata might in one place be shale and in another sandstone, the fossils in that shale or sandstone were always the same.
存在于两个相连地层之间的岩石，可能在这一层是泥板岩，而在另一层中是砂岩；但存在于泥板岩或者砂岩中的化石往往都是相同的。
He received rudimentary village schooling, but mostly he roamed his uncle's farm collecting the fossils that were so abundant in the rocks of the Cotswold hills.
他只在乡村学校接受了最基本的教育，但大部分时间都在叔叔的农场里游荡，收集科茨沃尔德丘陵中充裕的化石。
Later, between 1909 and 1915 sediments in Mammoth Cave that contained fossils were hauled out and examined in a chaotic manner that no scientist today would approve.
后来，在1909年到1915年之间，猛犸象洞穴里含有化石的沉积物被拖出，并以一种今天的科学家都不会同意的混乱的方式进行了检测。
Unearthed in China, fossils of feathered dinosaurs offer the most dramatic evidence yet discovered of the close evolutionary relationship between dinosaurs and birds.
在中国出土的有羽毛的恐龙化石为恐龙和鸟类之间的密切进化关系提供了迄今为止最引人注目的证据。
One interpretation regarding the absence of fossils during this important 100-million-year period is that early animals were soft bodied and simply did not fossilize.
在这重要的一亿年的周期内缺乏化石（记录），关于这一点，有一种解释是早期的动物是软体动物，所以它们无法形成化石。
At older lake sites, there's fossil remains from hippopotamuses, water buffalo, animals that spend much of their lives standing in water, and also, fossils of cattle.
在较老的湖泊遗址，有河马、水牛的化石遗迹，这些动物一生中大部分时间都站在水里，还有牛的化石。
One interpretation regarding the absence of fossils during this important 100-million-year period is that early animals were soft-bodied and simply did not fossilize.
关于在这一亿年的重要时期中没有化石，有一种解释是，早期的动物是软体动物，根本不会变成化石。
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