蜥蜴

The name Stegosaurus means "covered lizard" or"roof lizard."

剑龙英文名字的含义是"掩盖着的蜥蜴"或"有屋顶的蜥蜴"。

Young male lizards in South Africa imitate females to fool older males into leaving them alone, in an example of transvestism in the natural world, researchers have found.

研究学者发现，南非的幼年雄蜥蜴会伪装成雌性以躲避成年雄蜥蜴的侵扰，这是自然界中「异装癖」的实例。

That's why she said she'd save the odd-looking Tuatara of New Zealand , a lizard-like creature with almost no living relatives, over the common sparrow.

因此她说她宁愿挽救长相奇怪的新西兰的大蜥蜴，一种看上去象蜥蜴一样的生物，而且几乎没有什么存活的近亲了，而不是普通的麻雀。

The tuatara, Sphendon punctatus, is found only in New Zealand and is the only surviving member of a distinct reptilian order Sphehodontia that lived alongside early dinosaurs and separated from other reptiles 200 million years ago in the Upper Triassic period.

刺背鳄蜥，也称作喙头龙，只有新西兰才有，是唯一现存的爬虫纲喙头目蜥蜴。这种蜥蜴曾于早期恐龙生活在一起，在200万年前的上三叠纪时期与其他爬虫纲动物分离。

These lizard s,thought to have been viviparous and carnivorous,may be early ancestors of the modern monitor lizard .

这些蜥蜴，尽管是胎生的食肉动物，可能是现在蜥蜴的早期祖先

The team snared 16 species of Australian dragon lizards from the family Agamidae, insect-eaters that range from hand-sized to nearly a meter long.

研究小组捕捉了16种澳大利亚龙蜥蜴，这些蜥蜴属于飞龙科，以昆虫为食，小的只有手掌大小，大的将近一米长。

Anolis sagrei spends much of its time on the ground, but previous research has shown that when a terrestrial predator is introduced, these lizards take to trees and shrubs, becoming increasingly arboreal over time.

Anolis sagrei蜥蜴有大部分时间都在地上的习性，但之前的研究表明，当出现有陆地的掠食者时，这种蜥蜴将会躲藏到树上或灌木中，随着时间的变迁慢慢形成树栖习性。

Anolis sagrei spends much of its time on the ground, but previous research has shown that when a terrestrial predator is introduced, these lizards take to trees and shrubs, becoming increasingly arboreal over time.

Anolis sagrei蜥蜴有大部分时间都在地上的习性，但之前的研究表明，当出现有陆地的掠食者时，这种蜥蜴将会躲藏到树上或灌木中，随著时间的变迁慢慢形成树栖习性。

After correcting for the lizards' overall size, the researchers found that bipedality did not improve endurance--in fact, the more bipedal the lizards were, the shorter their sprints. Nor did the lizards run faster on two legs than on four.

经过对蜥蜴大小进行数据校正，研究人员发现用双腿奔跑并不能提高持久性，实际上，蜥蜴用双腿奔跑的比例越大，跑的距离越短，并且速度也并不比用四条腿跑得快。

Since marine iguanas can live more than 28 years, and EL Nino recur at roughly 3-to-7-year intervals,"adult iguanas can switch between growth and shrinkage several times over the course of their lives,"says Martin Wikelski of the University of Illinois, who conducted the research with Corinna Thorn of the University of Wurzbury in Germany.

&由于海边蜥蜴能够生存长达28年，厄尔尼诺则每隔3-7年一次，那么成年蜥蜴在它们生命历程中要收缩和伸长好几次。&伊利诺州立大学的马丁。威尔斯基教授说，他同时与德国伍兹伯利大学的科琳娜。

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。