我们叫这种生物两栖的，即它们能在路上和水里同样舒适地生活。
We call such creatures amphibious, which means that they are able to live with equal ease on the land and in the water.
这个理论对两栖的鸭嘴兽来说有些道理，然而针鼹却是完全陆生的动物。
The theory seems plausible for platypuses, which are amphibious creatures. Echidnas, however, dwell solely on land.
工程车是一个集建筑，修理，俘获和回收于一体的多功能单位。它是水陆两栖的，可以掠过水面建造海军设施。
The Engineer is a multi-purpose construction, repair, capture and reclamation unit. It is amphibious and can skim across the water's surface to construct naval facilities.
然而，这里却有着两栖的企鹅和海豹以及丰富的海洋生命—包括从被称为浮游生物的微小生物，直到迄今所知世界上最大的动物蓝鲸。
However, there are amphibious penguins and seals and a rich Marine life, ranging from the minute organisms called plankton to the biggest creature the world has ever known, the blue whale.
然而，这里却有着两栖的企鹅和海豹以及丰富的海洋生命—包括从被称为浮游生物的微小生物，直到迄今所知世界上最的动物蓝鲸。
However, there are amphibious penguins and seals and a rich Marine life, ranging from the minute organisms called plankton to the biggest creature the world has ever known, the blue whale.
一些两栖动物通过在地下深处的休眠期内完成加速发育以适应干旱环境。
Some amphibians adapt to arid environments by completing accelerated development with resting stages deep underground.
像大多数的两栖动物一样，它们从幼年的“蝌蚪”状态蜕变成成年的形式——蝾螈这个物种除外，众所周知，它一生都处于幼年状态。
Like most amphibians these begin life in a juvenile "tadpole" state, then metamorphose into the adult form — except for one species, the axolotl, which famously lives its entire life as a juvenile.
为什么那位演讲者要选择这种两栖动物作为公众生物的代表呢？
Why does the speaker choose that amphibian as her representative of a public creature?
可以肯定的是，这些水陆两栖物种的数据出现在接近三角坐标中间的位置，位于水栖海龟和陆栖乌龟的坐标点之间。
Sure enough, these amphibious species show up on the triangular graph approximately half way between the "wet cluster" of sea turtles and the "dry cluster" of land tortoises.
北美两栖类监测计划是美国最大的青蛙计数系统。
The North American Amphibian Monitoring Program is the country's largest frog-counting system.
为了测试甲虫捕食两栖类的能力，两位研究人员设计了如同《末日战士勇破雷电堡》一样的实验。
To test the beetle's amphibian eating ability, the researchers set up an experiment straight out of Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome.
海斯提到，出去气候变化，栖息地遭到破坏，物种入侵，阿特拉津的使用时导致两栖动物数量减少的另一元凶。
The results indicate atrazine could contribute to amphibian population declines, along with climate change, habitat loss and invasive species, Hayes said.
现在，你已经了解拍摄爬行动物和两栖动物的小技巧，再在下面100幅绝妙的照片中汲取些灵感吧。
Now that you've read through our quick tips on shooting your own amazing reptile and amphibian photos, take in some incredible inspiration with the 100 photos below.
在超过两百年的两栖动物研究历史中，这从未被报告过。
In more than 200 years of [amphibian research] this has never been reported.
今天的图片集是对一个特殊群体的礼赞，这些家伙们全都滑溜溜或黏溚溚，或两者兼而有之——我们收集了整整100幅爬行动物和两栖动物的完美照片。
Today’s photo collection is a tribute to all things scaly, slimy, or perhaps even both. We have gathered one hundred impeccable examples of reptile and amphibian photography.
蟾蜍和其他两栖动物对环境化学的变化非常敏感，我认为它们应该能够感知到这些气体和带电粒子。
Toads and amphibians are very sensitive to changes in environmentalchemistry and I think these gases and charged particles could have beendetected by the toads.
“这些都是非常了不起的发现，而且可能对人类和两栖类物种来说都有重要的意义，”摩尔博士说。
"These are fantastic finds and could have important implications for people as well as for amphibians," said Dr Moore.
它们古老的两栖特征可能是理解恐龙时代的繁荣及它们最终幸存下来的关键。
Their amphibious talents in the past may be the key to understanding how they flourished in, and ultimately survived, the dinosaur era.
不过直到现在，研究者才认识到两栖动物的幼仔可能也会在水下发出声音。
Until now though, researchers did not realise that amphibian larva might also produce sounds underwater.
北美两栖动物监测中心是美国最大的青蛙统计机构。
The North American Amphibian Monitoring Program is the country's largest frog-counting system.
北美两栖动物监测中心是美国最大的青蛙统计机构。
The North American Amphibian Monitoring Program is the country’s largest frog-counting system.
在全球范围内的动物当中，两栖类受到灭绝的威胁最大。有三分之一的两栖类已在灭绝的边缘。
Amphibians are the most threatened group of animals worldwide, with a third of the world's species in danger of extinction.
一个旨在重新发现被认为灭绝的两栖物种的代表团收获了其第一个发现。
A mission aimed at rediscovering amphibian species thought to be extinct has yielded its first results.
动物园的保护中心曾经尝试保存并从两栖动物的皮肤细胞繁育，但这确实是个棘手的工作。
The zoo's Institute for Conservation Research has experience preserving, and breeding from, amphibian skin cells. It is, however, a tricky business.
在大地的混沌时期，水陆还没有清楚地分开，体积巨大、奇形怪状的两栖动物，在从淤泥地里生长出来的、没有树身的森林中行走。
When, in the early ages of the Earth, land and water had not yet distinctly separated, huge misshapen amphibious creatures walked the trunk-less forests growing on the oozing silt.
在德国莱比锡动物园的帮助下，该大学正在主持一个圈养繁殖两栖动物的研究项目。
The university, with the help of Germany's Leipzig zoo, is leading a project to breed amphibians in captivity.
科学家们推测它们应该是当时席卷整个两栖动物世界致命的蛙壶病菌的牺牲品。
Scientists believed it was probably a victim of the deadly chytrid fungus that has devastated amphibian populations around the world.
科学家们推测它们应该是当时席卷整个两栖动物世界致命的蛙壶病菌的牺牲品。
Scientists believed it was probably a victim of the deadly chytrid fungus that has devastated amphibian populations around the world.
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