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。
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.
但不管怎样，这些化石都提供了检验一段处于古生物学谜团之中的时期的难得机会。
In either case, the fossils provide a rare opportunity for examining a period shrouded in paleontological mystery.
化石展示了人们所认知的“适应性辐射”,这也从生物学的角度解释了一定时期内急剧的生物多样性现象,致使个体物种的分化没有被世人所察觉.
The fossils show what is known as an adaptive radiation. This is biology-speak for a period of diversification so fast that the individual splits cannot be distinguished.
赛尔尼认为，要做到严丝合缝，必须“在南部阿拉伯地区找到100,000年前的解破学意义上的现代人类的遗体化石”。
Cerny said a sealed-tight case could be made with "some fossils of the anatomically modern humans some 100,000 years old found in South Arabia."
达尔文在旅行途中挖掘化石、收集鸟类和植物及其它标本，而且对地质学也熟悉起来。
Darwin dug up fossils on his journey, collected birds and plants and other specimens, and became familiar with geology.
文特尔成立了用于商业用途的合成基因组学公司(SGI)，旨在解决全球性问题，如对化石燃料的依赖，环境退化和疾病流行。
Venter starts the for-profit Synthetic Genomics Inc. (SGI) to work on solving global problems, such as fossil-fuel dependence, environmental degradation and disease epidemics.
我们得到下颌的一部分，却都比我们见过的任何下颚化石都要大，“奥斯陆大学研究这一动物的小组中的一位古生物学家埃斯本说。
We have parts of the lower jaw that are huge compared with anything we've ever seen, " said Espen Madsen Knutsen, a palaeontologist on the team at the University of Oslo that studied the creature.
他将比较解剖学原则应用于化石上，探寻现存动物的体型是否有助于推断过去生物的体型。
He did so by applying to fossils the principles of comparative anatomy, asking what light the body shapes of living animals could cast on the shapes of creatures from the past.
霍尔丹，英国遗传学的先驱，他回答道：在前寒武纪的兔子化石就是了。
S.Haldane, a pioneering British geneticist, replied: “Fossil rabbits in the Precambrian era.
霍尔丹，英国遗传学的先驱，他回答道：在前寒武纪的兔子化石就是了。
S. Haldane, a pioneering British geneticist, replied: "Fossil rabbits in the Precambrian era."
传说来源于化石,但是最近有研究表明通过遗传学的深入研究同样能够让我们追溯到物种进化的整个过程.
The myth is based on fossil evidence, but these days genetics can trace the path of evolution, too.
而身为古人类学家的诹访元同时也是虚拟人类学领域中的一位奇才，他通过对那些脆弱得无法处理的骨骼化石进行CT扫描，创造出可以进行分析的数字影像。
Meanwhile, Suwa, a wizard in the new field of virtual anthropology, CT scanned the bones too fragile to handle, creating digital versions that could be analyzed.
Richard B.Hoover今年3月在《宇宙学杂志》撰文声称在掉落地球的流星里找到了外星生命的微化石，这个发现证实了外星生命的存在。
The Journal of Cosmology ran an article in March from Richard B. Hoover, claiming evidence of alien microfossils were found in a meteor, suggesting extraterrestrial life.
另外，在寒冷的环境发现的猛犸毛发数量丰富，它们也不像骨骼和肌肉等携带了解剖学信息的化石材料一样被认为有重要价值。
Moreover, mammoth hair is found in copious quantities in cold environments and it is not regarded as fossil material of enormous value like bone or muscle, which also carries anatomical information.
产于新疆吐鲁番地区的一种放射状群体珊瑚化石的花纹独特，颜色多种，具有很高的宝石学价值。
The radiated colony coral fossils with distinctive patterns and colours from Turpan, Xinjiang, is of highly gemmological value.
古生物学对出现在史前或地质时代的生命的形成的研究，体现在植物、动物和其它有机体的化石上。
The study of the forms of life existing in prehistoric or geologic times, as represented by the fossils of plants, animals, and other organisms.
目前正在利用层序地层学原理探讨范围广阔的不同课题，例如盆地演化、岩相结构、化石记录的性质以及有机相的分布等。
The principle of sequence stratigraphy is used in discussing a wide scope of topics, such as basin evolution, facies structure, nature of fossil record, and distribution of organic facies, etc.
从化石记录和分子生物学证据方面探讨了大熊猫分类和演化的研究现状及进展。
This paper mainly discusses recent advances on taxonomy and evolution of giant panda in view of fossil record and molecular biology.
现代针叶树气孔器的研究为鉴定化石气孔器奠定了基础，对第四纪植被变化和古气候的研究起着很重要的作用，是第四纪孢粉学的一个重要补充。
The study on the morphology of stomata of conifers is the foundation of identifying fossil stomata that is important for the study of the change of vegetation and climate.
有时将古生物学分为古植物学(植物化石研究)、古动物学(动物化石研究)以及古生态学。
Sometimes the subject is divided into paleobotany, the study of fossil plants, paleozoology, the study of fossil animals, and paleoecology.
开展了翼龙化石胚胎学研究；
同位素测年及化石年代学法是蛇绿岩年代学研究的基本方法。
The isotopic dating and fossil geochronometry are the basic methods of ophiolite geochronometry.
化石解剖学的研究表明，人类有声分节语言的成熟有赖于咽腔成熟。
Fossil-Anatomy research shows that the maturity of language depends upon the pharynx.
国内外在现代分布、系统分类及其演化、化石历史、遗传学以及分子生物学等方面对栎属植物进行了深入的研究。
The researches of Quercus have been on the modern distribution, origin and phylogeny, fossil history, genetics and molecular biology etc.
几十年来，古生物学家研究化石和分子生物学家，研究遗传学不同意龟是否更密切相关的鸟类和鳄鱼或蜥蜴。
For decades, paleontologists who study fossils and molecular biologists who study genetics have disagreed about whether turtles are more closely related to birds and crocodiles or to lizards.
古生物学专业研究化石和学习已灭绝的生物物种。课程包括化石的形成和化学，植物化石，实地和实验室的研究方法等。
Paleontology majors study fossils and learn about extinct life forms. Topics of study include fossil formation and chemistry, fossil plants, methods of research in the field and lab, and more.
古生物学专业研究化石和学习已灭绝的生物物种。课程包括化石的形成和化学，植物化石，实地和实验室的研究方法等。
Paleontology majors study fossils and learn about extinct life forms. Topics of study include fossil formation and chemistry, fossil plants, methods of research in the field and lab, and more.
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