In the distant past, large herbivores like mastodons dispersed maclura seeds, each the size of an orange in their droppings.

在遥远的过去，像乳齿象这样的大型食草动物播撒着桑橙属植物的种子，在它们的粪便中，每个种子都像橙子那么大。

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Hawks says genetic analysis will provide a much richer picture of life in the distant past.

霍科斯表示，基因分析可以提供远古过去更加丰富的生活画面。

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In the distant past, climate variations may have shaped the very nature of our species.

在遥远的过去，气候变化塑成了我们这些物种的本质。

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Mars landers and rovers were designed to look for signs of liquid water that may have flowed on Mars in the distant past.

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If this theory you might say of sort of cataclysmic change is true we cannot rule out the possibility that a constitution like ours or even identical to ours existed at some point in the ancient past in the far distant past that Aristotle knew about.

你们可能认为，如果这个理论,即剧烈变革的理论为真,我们就不能排除,像美国宪法,或相同于美国之其它现存宪法,早在远古。

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Alfred Wegener said the mountains and fossils were evidence that all the land on Earth was united at some time in the distant past.

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Climates were different in the distant past and now these scientists say new ones are emerging.

NPR: Warming Will Create Micro-Climates, Scientists Say

Wildlife experts are to discuss whether large animals that were native to Scotland in the distant past could one day be reintroduced.

BBC: Bringing bears to Scotland to be debated at Lochinver

The Incas and Mayans in the distant past created stone cultures with edifices, mammoth monuments, and pyramids, and they remain until now.

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