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Scientists have found a 67 million-year-old fossil of a snake coiled around dinosaur eggs and a hatchling.

科学家在一块6700万年的化石中发现了一条蛇盘绕在恐龙蛋和一只幼仔周围。

Fossil fuels are, in terms of the energy they store, remarkably inexpensive to get out of the ground and sell.

由于化石燃料储存能源的方式，使其开采和出售都非常便宜。

Their language is regarded as something of a linguistic "fossil" and one of the oldest and most "pure" Inuit dialects.

Inughuit人的语言被尊为语言“化石”，是最古老、最纯正的因纽特方言之一。

"In the end, if they use more renewables domestically, they can export more" fossil fuels, she said. "It's sort of a no-brainer. "

最后，如果他们在国内使用更多的可再生资源，他们就可以出口更多的化石燃料，这是显而易见的事实。

It's easy to call global warming junk science as long as you are the one benefiting from burning fossil fuels to extract their energy.

如果你是烧别人的石油的受益者，你就称称全球变暖是科技进步表现。

But because much of this industry still relies on subsidies to be competitive with fossil fuels, it is still not a true free market.

但由于这个行业在很大程度上仍然依赖津贴去和化石燃料竞争，因此仍然不是一个真正的自由市场。

He said that the climate talks due to conclude in Copenhagen in December were fundamental to whether the world moved away from fossil fuels.

他指出即将于12月在哥本哈根达成协议的气候大会对于是否在世界范围内离开化石能源至关重要。

Human beings need to make far more decisions like this: to leave fossil fuels in the ground, and to leave rainforests standing.

人类需要做出更多此类决定：不去开采地层下面的化石燃料，让雨林自然生长。

Climate scientist can estimate how much of the remaining fossil fuels we can safely burn.

气候科学家可以测量我们还可以安全地燃烧多少剩余的石化燃料。

"That's a nice dinosaur, " she said as she played in the fossil pit at the end of the trail.

“那只恐龙很和善，”她一边在路径终点处的化石坑里玩，一边说道。

But it is definitely good news to see at least one Christmas tree lot switching over from fossil fuels to solar power.

但无论如何，有一批圣诞树放弃了矿物燃料转而使用太阳能这种清洁能源都是毋庸置疑的好消息。

In other words, having only one type of fossil is often not enough to draw definitive conclusions about an ancient species' behavior.

换句话说，要对某种古代物种的行为得出明确的结论，只有一种类型的的化石是远远不够的。

The panda is often called a living fossil, having inhabited the planet since the days of the saber-toothed tiger.

熊猫常被称作活化石，其栖息足迹可追溯到剑齿虎的时代。

But the nuclear industry needs to do more than build a few plants a year to be a true low-carbon alternative to fossil fuels.

但是，要想成为真正的低碳的化石能源替代品，核能行业必须在建造核电站以外做更多的工作。

This piece of geography, now just a fossil lake bed, is known as glacial lake Missoula.

这一片地形，现在只是湖泊化石沉积矿，被称为冰川湖密苏拉。

Instead of being powered by the sun, then, some young sharks seem to run on fossil fuel.

除了依赖阳光来获得能量以外，一些幼小的鲨鱼似乎依存于矿物燃料。

The object, he said, was not to be an alternative for fossil fuels, but "to become a viable replacement. "

目标不是要成为化石燃料的替代，而是“要成为一个可行的替代品。”

If it falls into the right category of subsidies for fossil fuels, we would have to look at our own programmes as well as others.

如果它恰好被划分到了燃料补贴的类别，我们将需要研究一下我们自己及其它国家的计划。

The next big piece of a global-warming-control plan involves learning to be more efficient with the fossil fuels we continue to burn.

控制全球气候变暖方案的另一个大的方面涉及到如何更有效的利用我们仍在使用的化石燃料。

The very gas we are busy pumping into the air at the rate of 30bn tonnes a year, mostly by burning fossil fuels.

就是我们主要通过燃烧矿物燃料，忙着以每年三百亿吨的速度排入空气的那种气体。