化石

This fossil may have been more than 200 million years.

这化石可能超过二百万年了。

In addition, 3 outcrops in the Chiahsien area were involved into this study, which including Ssutehsiang, Paiyunhsiangku, and Niupu. Purposes of this fieldwork have two folds. One is to compare the specific occurrences of carbonate-cemented mudstones in TKS, HKS, PPS, FS, and those in the Chiahsien area. The other is to recheck Hayasaka's descriptions (1932) about the unique occurrences of fossil lucinids bivalves and fossiliferous marls of Chiahsien and the southeastern Shoushan.

此外，选定甲仙地区四德巷、白云仙谷以及牛埔等三个剖面，以做为与在大岗山、小岗山、半屏山以及凤山等地基底泥岩中所见特殊碳酸盐胶结泥岩产状的比较，同时也藉此验证Hayasaka（1932）关於甲仙四德巷与寿山东南侧矿场泥岩顶部地层中，所含泥灰岩与大量巨带蛤化石的记载。

A schematic model was proposed to illustrate the occurrences of various lithologies and lithofacies associations. The erosional surfaces on siliciclastic mudstones, funnel-shaped structure, and the exhuming of massive cold-seep carbonates exposed might have been occurred concurrently during a tectonic unstable time in SW Taiwan. The deposition of fossiliferous mudstone interfingered with the conglomerate lithofacies, and represented the rapid facies transition from siliciclastic (non-carbonate) into carbonate environment.

综合岩相观察结果，建构一个符合台湾西南部更新世珊瑚礁与基底泥岩接触关系的沉积相模式；其中，基底泥岩顶部的不规则冲蚀面、充填碳酸盐胶结泥岩砾与碳酸岩烟柱的漏斗状沉积，以及块状冷泉碳酸盐岩的出露，可能均为区域地质构造活动时期所造成；至於与含化石泥岩同时沉积的砾岩相，可能均为基底泥岩在快速浅化的过程中所沉积，标志古环境由矽质碎屑快速转变为碳酸盐环境的过程。

They examined the fossilize d remains of the Sinosauropteryx and Sinornithosaurus which were discovered in October 2009 during a dig in northeast China.

他们仔细观察了中华龙鸟和中国鸟龙的化石（2009年在中国东北地区出土发现）。

Orchids simply don't fossilize well.

兰花要形成品相良好的化石非常不容易。

But there is another possibility as well, said Mark Norell, curator of paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History: It is entirely possible that Juravenator did have feathers, but they simply failed to fossilize.

美国自然历史博物馆的古生物学家马克·诺莱尔还提出了另外一种说法，即完全有可能Juravenator的确长有羽毛，但是这些羽毛却没能形成化石。

As well-studied as dinosaurs have been over the past couple of centuries, paleontologists have learned little about their breathing, because lungs do not fossilize.

尽管过去的几个世纪里，我们对恐龙类有比较深入的研究，可是古生物学家仍对它们的呼吸状态知之甚少，因为肺无法形成化石保存至今。

But there is another possibility as well, said MarkNorell,curator of paleontology at the American Museum of NaturalHistory:It is entirely possible that Juravenator did have feathers,butthey simply failed to fossilize.

美国自然历史博物馆的古生物学家马克·诺莱尔还提出了另外一种说法，即完全有可能Juravenator的确长有羽毛，但是这些羽毛却没能形成化石。

But there is another possibility as well, said MarkNorell,curator of paleontology at the AmericanMuseum of NaturalHistory:It is entirely possible that Juravenator did have feathers,butthey simply failed to fossilize.

美国自然历史博物馆的古生物学家马克·诺莱尔还提出了另外一种说法，即完全有可能Juravenator的确长有羽毛，但是这些羽毛却没能形成化石。

Studies of the animals and plant pieces trapped in the African amber will be crucial to understanding insect life in the prehistoric forests of Gondwana, since small bugs don't fossilize in rock, said team member Matthias Svojtka, a paleontologist at the University of Vienna.

参与最新研究的维也纳大学古生物学家马蒂亚斯-斯沃基卡表示，对封存于非洲琥珀中的动植物种类的研究，将对理解史前冈瓦那大陆森林的昆虫生活至关重要，因为小昆虫不会在岩石中演变成化石。

They weren't aggressive, but I yelled and threw a rock in their direction to get them off the trail and away from me, just in case.

他们没有侵略性，但我大喊，并在他们的方向扔石头让他们过的线索，远离我，以防万一。

In slot 2 in your bag put wrapping paper, quantity does not matter in this case.

在你的书包里槽2把包装纸、数量无关紧要。