fossils

The image of the building can be interpreted as a highly dynamic and powerful body and a crystal unearthed fossils.

大楼的形象可以被解读为一块富有动势的水晶体与一块出土的化石。

"Pesky new fossils. . . sharply at odds with conventional wisdom never seem to cease popping up, " Ruben wrote in his PNAS commentary.

“极新的化石…尖锐地向传统知识体系发起挑战，而且看起来永远不会停止挑战，”鲁本在PNAS上的评论文章里写道。

But, if that was true, why did some of the fossils look like "mistakes" which had failed to change and, for that reason, died out?

可果真如此，为什么有的化石看起来像是上帝的“失误”？它们未能适应变化，也因此而绝迹了。

One of the most unexpected Chinese fossils in Microraptor. It had four feathered limbs and almost certainly could fly.

令人意想不到的中国小盗龙化石，它的四肢长有羽毛，古生物学家断定它肯定可以飞行。

So when fossils with these jaw structures have turned up, it had been assumed that the creatures were eating tough foods too.

因此，当有这些（强壮）颌骨的化石出土时，人们便认为这些生物也是吃较硬的食物。

But, the older age of these Au. sediba fossils raises the possibility of a separate, older lineage from which Homo erectus may have evolved.

但是，古老的南方古猿人化石提出了一种可能——直立人可能是由一种独立血统的物种进化的。

Fossils bear testament to an ocean-covered formative period, although today Tatooine is all but waterless.

化石证明（塔图因）的表面曾经有段时期覆盖着广阔的海洋，然而现在却几乎没有水面。

Talk about an old-growth forest. Newly described fossils push back the appearance of wood by at least 10 million years.

在对上古森林的研究中，新近清理出的化石将木本的出现向前推进了至少一千万年的时间。

It's hoped that this latest find may help to clarify what geological conditions, or series of events, help to produce such pristine fossils.

希望此次最新的发现能帮助弄清此处的地质条件，或者是怎样的一系列事件致使此处能出土这般未受侵蚀的化石遗骸。

Babcock said he planned to Nevada footprint fossils found in these areas to find those behind the footprints of the animal fossils.

巴布科克说，他计划在内华达州发现这些足迹化石的地区寻找留下这些足迹的动物的化石。

Chemical fossils (e. g. alkanes and porphyrins) are often the only evidence for life in rocks of PRECAMBRIAN age.

化学化石（烷烃和卟啉）是前寒武纪地层中生命存在的唯一证据。

The Alamosaurus is one of the most commonly found fossils, except for its skull, an example of which has never been found.

阿拉莫龙是被发现最多的恐龙化石之一，但它的头骨样本却一直没有找到过。

Fossils are plant and animal remains that have been preserved beneath the surface of the earth.

植物和动物化石是已下了地球表面的保留依然存在。

Some ammonite fossils have tooth marks that look as though they were made by huge reptilian predators called mosasaurs.

一些古鹦鹉螺化石有牙齿痕迹，看起来这些痕迹似乎由一种称为沧龙的巨大的肉食性海生爬行动物造成。

These prehistoric wasp cocoons, known as trace fossils among paleontologists, date back 75 million years to what is now Montana.

这些史前黄蜂蜂巢——古生物学家称为遗迹化石——可以追溯到7500万年前的蒙大拿州。

Now, after 150 years of searching for fossils since Darwin, zero transitional fossils have been found of the millions of fossils collected.

从达尔文开始到现在，经过150多年的化石寻找，在数以百万计的采集到的化石中，却没有发现过渡化石。

The fossils date to a period when south China was a large island just north of the equator with a tropical climate .

化石的形成时间可以追溯到中国南方还是赤道附近的一个巨大岛屿的时候，那时中国属于热带海洋气候。

Palaeontologist Richard Owen told him the fossils he had found were of extinct relatives of South American animals living today.

古生物学家理查德·欧文则对他说，他发现的化石是现今生活在南美洲的动物业已灭绝的亲属。

The historical nature of macroevolutionary study involves inferencefrom fossils and DNA rather than direct observation.

宏观进化论研究具有史学性质，它的质料来自化石和DNA，而不是直接观察。

Only a few scattered and fragmentary fossils older than two million years have been argued to belong to the genus.

只有一些分散的、支离破碎的化石有超过200万年的历史，它们被认为是人类的化石。