一百万年前，我们基本上是濒临灭绝的物种。
A million years ago, we were essentially an endangered species.
伯吉斯页岩地层中也有许多代表着现代动物群中已经灭绝的物种的化石。
The Burgess Shale formation also has fossils of many extinct representatives of modern animal groups.
这是一个非常特殊的地方，有很多濒临灭绝的物种，而由于它位于海洋生物中心的偏远角落，所以经常被忽视。
This is very special and has a large number of endangered species, and as it's at the far corner of the Sea Life Centre, it often gets overlooked.
野外灭绝的物种：66
柳芭可以帮助科学家重新创造出长毛象这一灭绝的物种吗？
一些濒于灭绝的物种，比如非洲象和野马，正在开始“复苏”。
Some endangered species, such as African Elephants and Wild Horses, are beginning to recover.
另有875个物种已经灭绝，这其中包括66个野生灭绝的物种。
A further 875 species are considered extinct including 66 that are extinct in the wild.
保护区的任务是观察，研究和繁殖频域灭绝的物种，增加它们的生存机会。
The reserve's mission is to observe, study and breed the endangered species to increase their chances of survival.
北极露脊鲸大约还有1万1千头。虽然种群数在增加，但仍是濒于灭绝的物种。
Bowheads, which number about 11,000, are an endangered species, though the population is increasing.
自然保护国际联盟将老虎定为濒于灭绝的物种，因此贩卖老虎的活动是禁止的。
the International Union for the Conservation of Nature has classified all tigers as endangered, which prohibits their movement in commercial international trade。
它回避了唯一一个讨论对是否需要因捕捞，交易，食用而灭绝的物种采取拯救措施的论坛。
It has sidestepped the only public forum that exists to discuss whether action is needed to save a species that is being fished, traded and eaten to extinction.
他的团队发现，在过去的122年间，至少有351种曾被认定为灭绝的物种被重新发现了。
His team determined that over the past 122 years, at least 351 species thought to have gone extinct have been rediscovered.
科学技术常常能带来新的医学疗法，有一天这些新疗法可能会拯救濒危物种，甚至重现灭绝的物种。
A technology used to develop new medical treatments might one day revive endangered or extinct species.
或者通过世界野生动物基金领养一个濒临灭绝的物种，这样你能得到一个可爱的宠物和收养证书。
Or adopt an endangered species through the World Wildlife Fund, and you’ll get a lovable stuffed pet and adoption certificate.
或者通过世界野生动物基金领养一个濒临灭绝的物种，这样你能得到一个可爱的宠物和收养证书。
Or adopt an endangered species through the World Wildlife Fund, and you'll get a lovable stuffed pet and adoption certificate.
当地人如何适应这些变化将决定避风港地区是将走向繁荣还是会像大熊猫一样变成濒临灭绝的物种。
How its people adapt to these changes will determine whether the Refuge prospers or becomes, like the panda, an endangered species.
如果他们获得成功，灭绝很久的生物的生物分子可能有一天会帮助我们来拯救这些濒临灭绝的物种。
If they succeed, molecules of long-dead organisms may one day help save living ones.
虽然士兵们以捕猎动物维生，但他们也定下了一些规矩，例如不射杀雄性动物，避免捕猎那些濒临灭绝的物种。
Soldiers hunted and ate the animals, but they also had rules: they would not shoot males, and they would try to avoid hunting any species to extinction.
第一批要灭绝的物种可能就是白狐猴负鼠（粗卷尾袋貂），一种只生活在北昆士兰州凉爽的山顶上的可爱动物。
The first species to go may be the white lemuroid possum (Hemibelideus lemuroides), a striking animal confined to a cool mountain top in north Queensland.
到目前为止，许多研究人员争论说对一种已经灭绝的物种进行全基因组测序是不可能的，因为那些标本退化严重。
Until now many researchers have argued that it would be impossible to sequence the entire genome of an extinct creature because the samples are so degraded.
过去，大气中的二氧化碳的增加和提高的温度实际驱动产生了更多新植物物种，其数量远远大于灭绝的物种数量。
In the past, rising atmospheric carbon dioxide and higher temperatures actually drove the evolution of far greater Numbers of new rainforest plant species than were wiped out.
其他专家，比如知名的哈佛大学昆虫学家威尔逊，在联合国教科文组织的会议上告诉与会者们灭绝的物种可能有一半之多。
Other experts, such as eminent Harvard entomologist E.O. Wilson, told participants at the UNESCO conference that extinctions could go as high as 50 percent.
根据国际自然与自然资源保护联合会统计，现存于野外的熊猫少于2500只，因此熊猫被列为濒临灭绝的物种。
There are less than 2,500 giant pandas left in the wild, according to the IUCN, which lists the species as endangered.
在所有正在濒临灭绝的物种中，反应最为剧烈的应该是珊瑚礁吧。珊瑚礁是海洋的热带雨林，是许多海洋生态系统的基础。
Of all the extinctions now taking place, perhaps the most dramatic is that of coral reefs, the rain forests of the oceans and a foundation of many Marine ecosystems.
例如，狄更逊水母，有的说是水母的近亲，有的说是海底蠕虫，有的说是地衣，有的甚至说它属于一个已经完全灭绝的物种。
Dickinsonia, for example, has been interpreted as being a relative of jellyfish, a Marine worm, a lichen, or even as a member of a completely extinct kingdom.
虽然现在是时候该算算账了，人类确实让很多物种濒临灭绝，但是我们也已经采取措施将濒临灭绝的物种从消失的边缘救了回来。
It is also time to take stock, though. Human activities are causing a mass extinction, but the right action now could pull life back from the brink.
研究报告发现了两种物种——一种灌木，球穗千斤拔，和另一种蕨类植物，姬蕨——生长在英国但是在日本本土被视为濒临灭绝的物种。
The report found two species - a shrub, Flemingia strobilifera, and a fern, Hypolepis tenuifloa - growing in the UK despite being deemed locally extinct in their Japanese homeland.
广南这一新的自然保护区，为这一酷似羚羊的物种的生存燃起了人们的希望。这是一个最近发现和极度濒临灭绝的物种，被当地人称为亚洲麒麟。
A new nature reserve in Quang Nam raises hope for the survival of the recently discovered and critically endangered antelope-like species, known locally as the Asian unicorn Photograph: ap.
广南这一新的自然保护区，为这一酷似羚羊的物种的生存燃起了人们的希望。这是一个最近发现和极度濒临灭绝的物种，被当地人称为亚洲麒麟。
A new nature reserve in Quang Nam raises hope for the survival of the recently discovered and critically endangered antelope-like species, known locally as the Asian unicorn Photograph: ap.
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