化石学家

In 240 profoundly fascinating pages, Neil Shubin, fossil-hunter, comparative anatomist and developmental zoologist, explains the origins of the constituent parts of every living body.

在240页极其引人入胜的文字中，身为化石搜寻者、比较解剖学家和发展动物学家的尼尔·舒宾解释了每一个生命体构成部分的渊源。

Gen. et sp., from the Aptian Albian Xinminpu Group of western China that represents a phylogenetic, morphological, and temporal link between these disjunct portions of tyrannosauroid evolutionary history.

古生物学家对霸王龙家族的了解主要建立在来自白垩纪时期两组截然不同的化石基础之上，这些化石距今大约1.45亿至6500万年前。

Furthermore, orchids grow in moist habitats that don't favour fossilization, says Norris Williams, a botanist at the Florida Museum of Natural History in Gainesville:"If you're in a wet tropical forest and you fall to the ground, there's a good chance that you're going to rot before you can fossilize."

此外，适宜兰花生长的潮湿环境却并不适合化石的形成，Gainesville市佛罗里达州自然历史博物馆的植物学家Norris Williams说，"如果身处潮湿的热带雨林并暴露在地面，那么在形成化石前，就很可能已经腐败。"

Gigantopithecus, ancient human beings to survive the requirements of a very harsh environment, and in such a small concentration of the region has so many ancient human and ape-man with the Gigantopithecus fossils, sites and all kinds of fossils, to that end, paleontologists in this area can have more discoveries, especially from the ancient relic down the same as the giant panda is called a "living fossil" species has held positive and optimistic attitude.

巨猿、古人类对生存环境的要求相当苛刻，而在这样小的区域内竟集中如此众多的古人类和猿人与巨猿化石、遗址及各种古生物化石，为此，古生物学家对在这一带能否有更多的发现，尤其是从远古孑遗下来的像大熊猫一样称为"活化石"的物种一直持有积极乐观的态度。

The paleontologist says the brain volume of placental carnivores is about two and a half times larger, on average, than that of pouched carnivores.

袋狮这种动物首先是由英国著名的化石学家理查德·欧文在1859年描绘给世人的。欧文相信，他的最新发现向人们描绘了最凶残同时也最具破坏性的食肉兽类。

In addition, after conducting chemical composition analysis of these fossils, paleontologists have discovered that contents of rare metals found in duck-billed dinosaur fossils and contents in deeper strata exist significant differences.

除此之外，古生物学家们在对这些化石的化学成分进行分析后发现，存在于鸭嘴龙化石中的稀有金属的含量与更深层地层中的含量存在着明显差异。

Gigantopithecus, ancient human beings to survive the requirements of a very harsh environment, and in such a small concentration of the region has so many ancient human and ape-man with the Gigantopithecus fossils, sites and all kinds of fossils, to that end, paleontologists in this area can have more discoveries, especially from the ancient relic down the same as the giant panda is called a "living fossil" species has held positive and optimistic attitude.

巨猿、古人类对生存环境的要求相当苛刻，而在这样小的区域内竟集中如此众多的古人类和猿人与巨猿化石、遗址及各种古生物化石，为此，古生物学家对在这一带能否有更多的发现，尤其是从远古孑遗下来的像大熊猫一样称为&活化石&的物种一直持有积极乐观的态度。

For years, scientists have puzzled over the fact that the fossil record features two types of pterosaurs but no intermediates.

多年以来，古生物学家已经陆续发现了两种翼龙的化石记录，但却一直苦於没有找到任何中间过渡类型的化石记录。

Many paleontologists don't think to checktheir fossils for protein, says palaeontologist Mary Higby Schweitzer of North Carolina StateUniversity in Raleigh, a co-author on the study.

很多古生物学家没有想到去检查他们的化石的蛋白质， Mary Higby Schweitzer 说， Raleigh 北加州大学的一位古生物学家，也是这次研究的合著者。

Rather than counting individual species of fossils, which vary over time, palaeontologists who study extinction usually count entire groups of related species, called genera.

古生物学家研究生物灭绝通常计算整个有亲缘关系的物种种群化石，而不是计算物种个体化石，因为物种的个体化石会随时间不断变化。

With Death guitarist Schuldiner adopting vocal duties, the band made a major impact on the scene.

随着死亡的吉他手Schuldiner接受主唱的职务，乐队在现实中树立了重要的影响。

But he could still end up breakfasting on Swiss-government issue muesli because all six are accused of nicking around 45 million pounds they should have paid to FIFA.

不过他最后仍有可能沦为瑞士政府&议事餐桌&上的一道早餐，因为这所有六个人都被指控把本应支付给国际足联的大约4500万英镑骗了个精光。