"Theearliest whales didn't look like whales at all," Thewissen said. "Itlooked like a cross between a pig and a dog."
德威森说，“最早的鲸类动物根本不是现在鲸类的样子，而是介于猪和狗之间的样子。”
So I'm thinking that with what's going on in the Gulf of Aden, basically there has to be something involving dolphins and possibly other sea animals, like whales.
所以我正在考虑发生在亚丁湾的，主要有一些东西涉及海豚和或许其它海洋动物，比如鲸鱼。
Like humans, killer whales have colonized a range of different habitats across the globe, occupying every ocean basin on the planet, with an empire that extends from pole to pole.
像人类一样，虎鲸也在全球范围内开拓了一系列不同的栖息地，占据了地球上的每一个海洋流域，拥有一个从一极延伸到另一极的帝国。
The structure of the backbone shows, however, that Ambulocetus swam like modern whales by moving the rear portion of its body up and down, even though a fluke was missing.
不过，走鲸的脊椎结构显示，即使没有尾片，它们在水中同样能够像现代鲸鱼那样通过身体后面部分的上下摆动来游动。
They show us what the intermediates might have been like, on the way to extreme cases such as whales and dugongs.
它们向我们展示了进化过程中半成品的样貌，而完全进化的结果是鲸鱼和儒艮。
She loved the whales like her children.
她就像爱她的孩子那样爱那些鲸鱼。
The skull is cetacean-like but its jawbones lack the enlarged space that is filled with fat or oil and used for receiving underwater sound in modern whales.
它的头骨与鲸类相似，但它的下颚骨没有现代鲸鱼用来接收水下声音的、充满脂肪或油脂的扩充空间。
They catch large sea animals like tuna, seals and even whales.
他们捕捉大型海洋动物，如金枪鱼、海豹甚至鲸鱼。
Katy Payne studied music as well as animals, and she was greatly surprised by how the whales communicated using sounds like an opera singer.
凯蒂·佩恩研究音乐和动物，她非常惊讶于鲸鱼的交流方式，它们的声音听起来如同一名歌剧歌手。
Whales are descended not from hippos but from that distant wolf-like creatures.
鲸鱼不是河马的后代，而是来自古老的类似狼的生物。
And then, at a hundred and sixty, the water beyond the rock was full of boys blowing like brown whales.
接着，数到一百六十时，离那块岩石很远的水面上，到处都是那群男孩，他们就像棕色的鲸鱼一样喷着水。
Large animals, like passing whales and dolphins, can also create enough disruption to produce a glow, as will passing boats.
大型动物像是鲸鱼和海豚游过时，也能引起足够的扰动来产生光芒，就像船只划过时那样。
Like fossils of whales with legs, Archaeopteryx seemed to capture a moment in a critical evolutionary metamorphosis.
和带有腿部的古鲸类化石一样，始祖鸟化石似乎捕捉到了关键进化形变中的某个瞬间。
But that's just a bunch of whales in a group imitating each other. That's not like the mass media pop culture humans have, right?
但仅仅是一群鲸在互相模仿，与人类时下大众媒体的流行文化风牛马不相及，是吧？
The trio excavated partial skeletons of fully aquatic whales like Basilosaurus and the smaller, 16-foot Dorudon.
三人组挖掘出全水栖鲸的部分骨架，比如大如龙王鲸，小如8英尺左右的硬齿鲸（Dorudon）。
A new study reveals that, just like humans, humpback whales in the South Pacific follow musical trends that change by the season.
一项新的研究显示，南太平洋的座头鲸像人类一样，按照季节变化着追求的音乐潮流。
Most of all, the researchers would like to understand why humpback whales, of all species, resemble humans in their love for ever-changing yet conformist fashion.
研究人员尤其想弄明白，在所有物种中，为什么只有座头鲸对于多变而古板的时尚的热爱跟人类如此相似。
Phytoplankton are the foundation of the aquatic food web, the primary producers, feeding everything from microscopic, animal-like zooplankton to multi-ton whales.
浮游植物是水生食物网的基础，作为初级生产者，它们是小到微观浮游动物、大到数吨的鲸鱼的食物。
I like to help the whales, the otters, and the dolphins.
我喜欢帮助鲸鱼、水獭和海豚。
And whale, a whale is not let you catch at will, whales are killed a head died a head of, don't like fish shrimp, so if we kill whales, that our children, they are not see whales this animal?
还有鲸，鲸不是让你们随意捕杀的，鲸是被杀掉一头就死一头的，不像小鱼小虾那样多，如果我们把鲸杀掉了，那我们的子孙后代，他们不是看不到鲸这种动物吗？
Blue whales off the California coast make calls that, sped up 10 times, sound like (sound of two-part call).
加利福尼亚海岸的蓝鲸会发出嘀嘀嘀呜呜呜这样两部分的叫声。
Life in the oceans ranges from the tiniest plants all the way up to giants like sharks and whales.
海洋里的生物从微小的浮游生物到庞大的动物如鲨鱼和鲸鱼都有。
Whales have scales is that false? Yes. Whales are not fish, True. You agree that the actual truth values are like that.
鲸鱼有鳞为假？是的，鲸鱼不是鱼，对，你们同意实际真值重要。
Notable exceptions are the nearly song-like choruses of bowhead whales in summer and the complex, haunting utterances of the humpback whales.
当然也有些著名的例外：比如夏天里北极露脊鲸歌曲般的合唱，还有座头鲸那复杂的、令人难以忘怀的低语。
The sando's muted color palette was inspired by the typical hues of large terrestrial animals, like elephants and whales.
桑多水怪的暗色调灵感来源于象、鲸等大型地球动物的典型色调。
To return to franklin, this didactically waggish man blandly assured english readers that it was grand to see the whales leap like salmon up the falls of niagara .
再回过来说好训人，喜谐谑的富兰克林，可不动声色地使欧洲人相信鲸鱼象鲑鱼那样跳过尼亚加拉瀑布，真可谓蔚为大观。
To return to franklin, this didactically waggish man blandly assured english readers that it was grand to see the whales leap like salmon up the falls of niagara .
再回过来说好训人，喜谐谑的富兰克林，可不动声色地使欧洲人相信鲸鱼象鲑鱼那样跳过尼亚加拉瀑布，真可谓蔚为大观。
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