The Ediacara fossil formation, which contains the oldest known animal fossils, consists exclusively of soft-bodied forms.
包含已知最古老的动物化石的埃迪卡拉化石组，只含有软体动物。
We see plants and animal fossils, but we never see a fossil of one kind of animal changing into another kind.
我们看见植物和动物化石，但我们从未看见一种动物改变到另一种动物的化石。
A slightly younger fossil formation containing animal remains is the Tommotian formation, named after a locale in Russia.
一个较新的包含动物遗骸的化石地层是托莫特地层，它以俄罗斯的一个地区命名。
Even if they are lucky enough to have a complete fossil, they may be unable to say much about how the animal behaved if it looks unlike anything they have seen before.
即使他们十分幸运的弄到一个完整的化石，如果它和以前他们所有见过的东西都不像，他们也没法对这个动物的行为了解更多。
"The fossil record will reveal a massive loss of plant and animal species, and also the scale of invasive species - how we've distributed animals and plants across the globe," Zalasiewicz says.
“化石记录将揭示植物和动物物种的大范围灭绝，以及物种入侵的范围——人类在全球范围内散布动植物的方式，”匝拉斯·维奇如是说。
Discovering direct evidence of what a fossil animal ate, rather than having to infer it from details such as the shape of its teeth, is always valuable.
发现一种动物以何为食的直接证据非常的有价值，我们不用再从它们的牙齿形状来推测它们吃什么了。
The fossil is of a lemur-like animal which was nicknamed Ida, while the official name is Darwinius masillae because the creature is a proof that confirms the Theory of Evolution by Charles Darwin.
化石长得有点像狐猴，科学家们把它叫做“艾达”，至于它的正式名称则是Darwiniusmasillae （达尔文的梅塞尔猿），因为这一生物是查尔斯达尔文的进化论的有力证明。
Since then, scientists have found clues to explain these animal transitions in the fossil and molecular records, as well as in energetic analyses, but the full story is yet to be discovered.
自那时起，科学家陆续找到了化石和分子水平的证据，以及通过能量分析来解释这一进化过程，但是尚未达到完全理解的程度。
That is interesting. Discovering direct evidence of what a fossil animal ate, rather than having to infer it from details such as the shape of its teeth, is always valuable.
比起根据其牙齿形状等细节来推测出结果，找出古生物吃什么的直接证据是有价值的。
Fossil animal repulses attack entirely and is defeated in and goes away.
化石动物整个地击退攻击和被击败并且走开。
The slabs of Burgess Shale that Walcott excavated contained the earliest known examples at the time of many major animal groups in the fossil record, in rocks that were about 505 million years old.
沃尔科特在伯吉斯页岩中发现的古生物化石，囊括了五亿五百万年前地球上生活的多个主要物种，这是人类第一次发现这么古老的化石。
Based on previous fossil finds paleontologists had estimated the largest pterosaur wingspans to be around33ft making it the largest ever animal to fly.
根据先前发现的化石，古生物学家原本估计，体型最大的翼龙的翼展可能在33英呎左右，荣登有史以来最大的飞翔动物的宝座。
"The fossil record will reveal a massive loss of plant and animal species and also the scale of invasive species - how we've distributed animals and plants across the globe" Zalasiewicz says.
“化石记录将揭示植物和动物物种的大范围灭绝，以及物种入侵的范围——人类在全球范围内散布动植物的方式，”匝拉斯·维奇如是说。
Article 2 the term "fossil" as mentioned in the present Measures refer to the remnant or trace of an animal or a plant of a past geologic age embedded and preserved in the earth's crust.
第二条本办法所称古生物化石，是指地质时期形成并赋存于地层中的动物、植物等遗体化石或者遗迹化石。
Intelligent design advocates have said sudden shifts in the fossil record are evidence of a higher power creating new animal forms.
倡导智慧设计论的人曾声称，化石记录的证据表明突变是更高效率创造新物种(的手段)。
Kuanchuanpu biota is the early Cambrian microfossil which is characterized as an early animal and plant fossil in the southern region of Shaanxi province.
宽川铺生物群是陕南地区早寒武世早期一个以微体动、植物化石为特色的生物群。
Kuanchuanpu biota is the early Cambrian microfossil which is characterized as an early animal and plant fossil in the southern region of Shaanxi province.
宽川铺生物群是陕南地区早寒武世早期一个以微体动、植物化石为特色的生物群。
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