This suggests that bacterial chemosynthesis is not a sufficient source of nutrition for these creatures.
这表明细菌的化学合成并不是这些生物的充足营养来源。
A rat or pigeon might not be the obvious choice to tend to someone who is sick, but these creatures have some superior skills that could help the treatment of human diseases.
老鼠或鸽子可能并不是用来照顾病人的明智选择，但这些动物拥有更高级的技能，可以帮助治疗人类疾病。
There turned out to be hundreds of these creatures, which started a big fad.
结果，这些小动物足有成百上千种，从而掀起了一大潮流。
Not once do any of these creatures disobey one jot or tittle of the laws of physics.
所有的这些生物从未有丝毫违背过物理学定律。
Elsewhere in the Talmud, Lilith is identified as the mother of these creatures.
在《塔木德》的其它地方，莉莉丝被认为是这些创造物的母亲。
In the process, he began to think there might be a practical use for these creatures.
在这个过程中，他开始思索如何发掘这些生物的实用价值。
It puzzles scientists how these creatures can survive in such severe conditions.
科学家很疑惑这些生物是如何在这样艰难的条件下存活的。
But these creatures are not polyps; they are insects: larvae of blood-sucking blackflies.
但这些生物并不是水螅，它们是一种昆虫——像蚊子一样吸血为生的蚋的幼虫。
Soaring through the air these creatures are often mistaken for flying hamsters or bats with tails.
这些滑翔空中的小生灵常被误认为是会飞的仓鼠，或是长了尾巴的蝙蝠。
Legends of Dracula and tales of vampire bats have done little to enhance these creatures' reputations.
《吸血鬼传奇》(Legendsof Dracula)和吸血蝙蝠的故事对提高这些生物的声望没起什么作用。
They were originally feared because people believed that these creatures could communicate with the spirits of the dead.
起初，这些动物让人觉得非常可怕，因为人们认为这些动物能和死者的幽灵进行交流。
It makes it feel as if these creatures have been here all along, and that they belong and have purpose in the world.
看起来那些生物好像一直就在那儿，它们属于这个世界并且为这个世界发挥着自己的作用。
No one knows for sure what these creatures mean, but the Moche may have believed the animals would bring healthy harvests.
没人知道这些图案的确切意义，但莫希人深信这些动物能带来大丰收。
They learn about the differences between all kinds of dinosaurs and the different eras these creatures roamed to earth.
他们看到了各种各样的恐龙，了解了它们之间的区别，也知道了这些生物在地球上出现的历史时期。
Because these creatures go way back, they can provide a deeper record into the past than any of the other approaches listed here.
由于时代久远，这些生物比起其他途径能提供更深远的历史记录。
Many of these creatures are described in greater detail in the book Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them by Newt Scamander.
很多生物在纽特斯卡特写的《神奇动物在哪里》中有非常细致的描写。
The aerobatics of insects are truly amazing, but what enables these creatures to excel in flight beyond any human flying machines?
昆虫的飞行特技确实令人赞叹不已。可是这些昆虫在飞行方面是怎样胜过人类的飞行器的呢？
"As the world gets hotter, these creatures have nowhere to go," says Stephen Williams from James Cook University in Queensland, Australia.
“随着世界越变越热，这些生物将无处可去，”澳大利亚昆士兰州詹姆斯·库克大学的StephenWilliams说。
Tauren consider it a significant life event to encounter one of these creatures - an omen, though for good or ill is not always apparent.
牛头人认为遇到这种生物是重大的生活事件—一个预兆，但好与坏并不总是显而易见的。
Since then, these creatures have been found living happily under the enormous pressures found at the bottom of many of the world's deepest oceans.
从那以后，这些生物已经被发现可以在世界许多深海海底的极大压力下自如地生活。
Perhaps the most important thing we've learned at Gombe is how similar we are to these creatures, with whom we share between 95 and 98 percent of our DNA.
也许我们在贡贝学到的最重要的一点就是我们和这些生灵之间何其相似，我们有95%到98%的DNA完全相同。
Farmers in southwest England do not agree that these creatures are so benign, and many sceptics believe the Beast of Bodmin is, if anything, an escaped foreign cat.
英格兰西南部的农民却认为这类生物绝非善类，许多人怀疑博德明野兽很有可能是一只脱逃的外来猫科动物。
We assume most animals are stupid and simple, but it's far from the truth. The forms some of these creatures take and what they do in order to survive is just incredible.
人类通常认为动物都是愚昧和简单的，但事实并非如此，为了生存下来，它们所采取的策略和行动绝对让人意想不到。
When all these creatures die, their remains (those bits that are not immediately eaten, anyway) sink to the sea floor, where some are eaten and some are buried indefinitely.
等到这些生物死掉的时候，它们的残骸(还没有被立即吃掉的部分)则会沉积到海底，一些部分被吃掉，另一些部分则永久地成为了海底的一部分。
When these creatures died, their shells fell to the bottom and gradually built up thick layers of limestone. For this reason, fossils are commonly found in much limestone.
当这些生物死后，它们的外壳便会沉入水底并逐渐堆积成厚厚的石灰岩层，这就是为什么在石灰岩中经常可发现一些生物化石的原因。
When these creatures died, their shells fell to the bottom and gradually built up thick layers of limestone. For this reason, fossils are commonly found in much limestone.
当这些生物死后，它们的外壳便会沉入水底并逐渐堆积成厚厚的石灰岩层，这就是为什么在石灰岩中经常可发现一些生物化石的原因。
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