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Paleontologists have only a pair of lower jaw fragments to go on, the larger of which (pictured above) is almost 11 inches long.
人们对于这种生物知之甚少，古生物学家只能靠两块下颌片段进行研究，其中较大的一块（见上图）大约为11英寸长。
For quite some time Cambrian remained just a scientific term concerned only by evolutionism scholars and paleontologists.
长期以来寒武纪仅仅是演化论学者和古生物学家所关心的科学名词。
Paleontologists have known for decades about the beginnings and endings of a group of dinosaurs known as the Sauropodomorpha.
对于一种叫萨尔塔龙的恐龙，古生物学家早就了解它从起源到灭绝的一些事。
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。
This realization provided a big incentive for paleontologists to get out in the field and find fossils older than the Cambrian.
这项体认刺激了古生物学家走入田野，寻找比寒武纪更古老的化石。
For years now, paleontologists have been debating about how gigantic plant-eating dinosaurs, known as sauropods, held their long necks.
多年来，古生物学家一直在讨论，像蜥脚类动物这样的大型食草恐龙是以什么方式昂着脖子的。
You know , skiers pray for snow? Paleontologists pray for erosion .
滑雪者祈祷下雪，古生物学家祈祷地址腐蚀。
"Sensational. " Western paleontologists soon made a pilgrimage to Beijing to see the fossil.
西方古生物学家很快就如同朝圣一般的奔赴北京，来亲眼见证这块化石。
These paleontologists suggest that the dinosaurs may have laid down on their sides and mated belly-to-belly.
这些古生物学者认为恐龙也许是侧身躺下，肚皮对肚皮进行交配的。
But paleontologists found a concentration of 34 bones from a single hadrosaur in the San Juan Basin sandstone.
但是古生物学家却在圣胡安盆地的砂岩中发现了一只鸭嘴龙单体的34块骨骼化石堆。
Anthropologists and paleontologists have always been fascinated by Madagascar's animals.
人类学家和古生物学家一直着迷于马达加斯加的动物。
Paleontologists have already made headway in tracking the expansion and contraction of the ranges of various organisms over the millennia.
古生物学者对于这千年期间不同的有机体活动范围做出扩展与缩短的追踪已经大有进展。
This classification is no longer used by paleontologists, who now employ a cladistic approach.
这种分类不再被古生物学家使用，他们现在使用亲缘分支分类法研究。
Paleontologists can only guess about mating positions, duration, and behavior.
古生物学者只能猜测它们交配的姿势、持续的时长和动作。
Some paleontologists envision a scenario in which dinosaurs used feathers to help them occupy trees for the first time.
一些古生物学家设想过恐龙利用羽毛首次攀到树上时的情形。
Actually, paleontologists know of many detailed examples of fossils intermediate in form between various taxonomic groups.
事实上，古生物学家有许多具体的化石例子，形态介于不同的类目之间。
With these results in hand, paleontologists will be able to cut the time it takes them to locate fossils to a fraction of what it is today.
通过这些结果，古生物学家将能削减现在只能寻找一小部分化石区域的时间。
Since then Gingerich and a handful of other paleontologists have filled in the story of early whales, tooth by tooth, toe by toe.
之后，金格里奇和其他少数几位古生物学家致力完善早期鲸的进化之路，点点滴滴，从牙齿到脚趾。
The fossil remains of the first flying vertebrates, the pterosaurs, have intrigued paleontologists for more than two centuries.
该恐龙化石的第一次飞行脊椎动物的尸骨，有好奇古生物的两个多世纪。
But other Chinese paleontologists were convinced it was a dinosaur.
但其他中国古生物学家则认为它就是恐龙。
Actually, paleontologists know of many detailed examples of fossilsintermediate in form between various taxonomic groups.
实际上，古生物学家掌握了许多处于种群之间的过渡性物种的化石。
Some paleontologists agree with this diagnosis, that our brains may have become smaller in size, but increasingly efficient.
一些古生物学家同意这个论断，虽然我们的大脑在尺寸上变小了，但是效率却增加了。
But over a century later, paleontologists have proven that most of Baron von Nopsca's discoveries and theories were legit.
不过在一个世纪以后，古生物学者们证明了Nopsca男爵的大部分发现和理论都是正确的。
Gingerich and many other paleontologists trusted the hard evidence of the bones more than the molecular comparisons of living animals.
证据确凿的骨骼证据，分子学家的分子比照，金格里奇和其他古生物学家更相信前者。
Most paleontologists suspect that abrupt changes in climate led to the mass extinctions.
大部分古生物学家都猜想是气候的突变导致了生物大灭绝。
Paleontologists are now carefully studying the closest theropod relatives of birds for clues to how this transition occurred.
古生物学家正在对鸟类的兽脚亚目最近亲进行仔细研究，以寻找这种转化的线索。
It was also toothless, unlike most pterodactyls , and paleontologists think it ate insects.
也有人无牙，这有别于绝大部分的翼龙，古生物学家认为，它吃昆虫。
Two paleontologists evaluate the exposed part of the extraordinary fossil.
两名古生物学家评估的非凡化石外露部分。
The abundance of feathered fossils has allowed paleontologists to examine a fundamental question: Why did feathers evolve?
丰沛的羽毛化石使得古生物学家有条件来验证一个最基本的问题：为什么羽毛会进化？
Scientists who hunt for these viruses think of themselves as paleontologists searching for fossils.
寻找这些病毒的科学家们把他们自己当成是搜寻化石的古生物学家。
Once a "trade secret" of paleontologists , the gaps are now acknowledged by every leading authority on evolution.
“化石空白”——古生物学家曾经的“行业秘密”，如今以为所有进化论的学术权威所公认。
Certain dinosaurs may go extinct -- again -- since they may have only existed in the minds of paleontologists.
某些恐龙可能会消失——再一次——因此它们可能只会存在于古生物学家的脑海中了。
Those of this nature may be scientists that closely study nature such as geologists or paleontologists or zoologists .
那些这一性质者，可能会是亲密研究大自然，如地理学家、古生物学家或动物学家的科学家。
Now, this once-worrisome gap in the fossil record is a period of intense interest to geologists as well as paleontologists.
这个曾经令人头疼的化石空白期现在成为了地质学家和古生物学家共同的关注对象。
Until last week, paleontologists could offer no clear-cut evidence for the color of dinosaurs.
直到上周，古生物学家们仍没能对恐龙的肤色问题拿出明了的证据。
Paleontologists believe that herbivore creatures stopped to drink at the site and were ambushed by carnivores such as the Prestosuchus.
古生物学家认为，草食动物停下来喝酒的网站，被伏击的食肉动物，如迅猛鳄。
Some paleontologists argued that these whiskers were simple feathers.
一些古生物学家这些胡须就是简单的羽毛。
Other paleontologists say Berger's fossils are a marvelous find.
其他的古生物学家说伯格尔的化石是一个非凡的发现。
Many of the creatures are so unlike modern forms that deciphering what they are and how they lived continues to challenge paleontologists.
化石中有些生物与现代生物形式迥异，要搞清这些生物是什么、习性如何，对古生物学家仍是个挑战。
Northeastern Thailand has become an important site for paleontologists in recent decades.
近几十年来，泰国东北部已成为古生物学家的重要研究场所。
