Among the highlights are huge monitor lizards, Galapagos turtles, naked mole rats, fruit bats and spiders.
其中数巨蜥加拉帕歌斯大海光秃秃的鼬鼠水果蝙蝠和蜘蛛最为引人注目。
So instead, scientists at Penn State analyzed the genes of their closest living relatives, the monitor lizards.
所以宾夕法尼亚州立大学的科学家们分析了它们现存的最近亲属巨蜥的基因。
New lizards found in the decade 1998 to 2008 include 17 species of skinks 12 geckos 5 forest dragons and 3 monitor lizards.
在1998年至2008年十年中还发现了新的蜥蜴，包括17种石龙子，12种壁虎，5种森林龙和3种巨蜥。
New lizards found in the decade 1998 to 2008 include 17 species of skinks, 12 geckos, 5 forest dragons and 3 monitor lizards.
在1998年至2008年十年中还发现了新的蜥蜴，包括17种石龙子，12种壁虎，5种森林龙和3种巨蜥。
But some scientists point to the elongated bodies and snake-like tongues of monitor lizards as signs that, over time, snakes evolved from some monitor lizards.
但是有些科学家认为，巨蜥修长的身躯和与蛇相似的舌头表明它们可能是蛇的祖先。
Now, because the mosasaurs - the monitor lizards' ancestors-were the only Marine lizards around when snakes evolved, snakes must have evolved from lizards living on land.
现在，因为沧龙-巨蜥的祖先-是蛇进化时周围唯一的海洋蜥蜴，所以蛇应该是从在陆地上生活的蜥蜴进化而来。
Conrad explains that scientists have come up with three candidates—iguanas, monitor lizards, and skinks—as the most likely relatives to have made way for the slithering snake.
Conrad解释道，科学家提出了三种候选物种：鬣蜥、巨蜥和小蜥蜴，它们最有可能是滑动行走的蛇的祖先。
Nile monitor lizards are not as big as Burmese pythons, maxing out around 6 feet long, but unlike the snakes, these razor-toothed, dagger-clawed predators are known to hunt in packs.
尼罗巨蜥没有缅甸蟒大，最大不过6英尺长，但与蛇不同的是，这些长着剃刀般牙齿、以及匕首一样爪子的食肉动物成群结队的进行捕猎。
Nile monitor lizards are not as big as Burmese pythons, maxing out around 6 feet long, but unlike the snakes, these razor-toothed, dagger-clawed predators are known to hunt in packs.
尼罗巨蜥没有缅甸蟒大，最大不过6英尺长，但与蛇不同的是，这些长着剃刀般牙齿、以及匕首一样爪子的食肉动物成群结队的进行捕猎。
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