The huge range of magnificently preserved fossils at Messel suggest that the volcanic lake was a death trap.

麦赛尔遗址所出土的大量保存极好的化石给我们提供了一个线索，火山湖正是罪魁祸首。

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It had a broken left wrist, healing at the time of death, and may have drowned in the volcanic lake at Messel.

左侧腕部骨折，到死亡之前还未愈合，可能是在位于梅塞尔的火山湖里淹死的。

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Last summer the oldest evidence of such parasites was found on the leaves of plants that grew in Messel, Germany, 48million years ago.

科学家去年夏天发现，类似寄生菌最早存在于4800万年德国梅塞尔地区的植物叶子上。

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The very fact that so many turtles died while mating at Messel Lake suggests something odd was going on there.

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They hired Miami architect Rafael Amuchastegui, a principal of RAD Architecture, who admits he knew little about Messel going into the project but had done "a lot of theme architecture, " like the Atlantis resort in the Bahamas.

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The researchers suggest that while the upper layers of Messel Lake were hospitable enough to allow turtles to live, its deeper layers may have been a toxic death trap, perhaps from the buildup of volcanic gases or poisonous decaying organic matter.

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