archaeopteryx的意思
archaeopteryx中文翻譯:
n.始祖鳥
archaeometry───n.考古定年學
archaeobacteria───古細菌
archaebacteria───n.原始細菌;古細菌類
archaeobotany───n.植物考古學
archaeocyte───n.原細胞
archaeology───n.考古學;考古學的
archaeometric───考古學
archenteric───腸系膜原
archenteron───n.[胚]原腸;消化道
Perhaps some of them could climb trees, but no convincing analysis has demonstrated how Archaeopteryx would have both climbed and flown with its forelimbs.───也許其中一些祖鳥會爬樹,但是沒有令人信服的分析證明始祖鳥是如何用它的前肢既爬又飛的。
Archaeopteryx shows no obvious features of gliders, such as a broad membrane connecting forelimbs and hind limbs.───始祖鳥并沒有表現出明顯的滑翔機的特征,比如有一層連接前肢和后肢的寬膜。
This objection was reasonable when only early theropod clavicles had been discovered, but fossilized theropod clavicles that look just like the wishbone of Archaeopteryx have now been unearthed.───這種反對是合理的,因為只有早期的獸腳亞目食肉恐龍的鎖骨才被發現,但是現在已經發掘出了類似始祖鳥的叉骨的獸腳亞目食肉恐龍鎖骨化石。
"If Archaeopteryx were discovered today, I don't think you would call it a bird. You would call it a feathered dinosaur, " says Carrano.───“如果始祖鳥是在今天發現的,我覺得古生物學家們肯定不會說它是鳥類,其實它就是一種帶羽毛的恐龍,”卡里諾說。
Moreover, its bone structure was similar to that of Archaeopteryx.───而且,恐爪龍的骨骼結構與始祖鳥很相似。
Archaeopteryx, supposedly the oldest and most primitive bird on Earth, might not have been a bird after all, scientists say.───科學家們說,據稱是地球上最古老最原始的鳥類的“始祖鳥”可能根本就不是一只鳥。
Like fossils of whales with legs, Archaeopteryx seemed to capture a moment in a critical evolutionary metamorphosis.───和帶有腿部的古鯨類化石一樣,始祖鳥化石似乎捕捉到了關鍵進化形變中的某個瞬間。
Recently, however, the supposed "world's oldest known bird, " Archaeopteryx, was found to be a non-avian dinosaur.───最近,被假定為“世界上最古老的已知鳥類”——始祖鳥被發現是一種非鳥類恐龍。
Now, renowned Chinese palaeontologist Professor Xu Xing believes his new discovery has finally knocked Archaeopteryx off its perch.───現在,具有聲望的中國古生物學家徐星教授相信:他的新發現已經正式地把“始祖鳥”踢下神壇。