You can see, for instance, this wonderful and beautiful seed cones 举个例子，你可以看到这些漂亮完好的球果 preserved in a petrified way where you can see inside even the, the seeds, the small seeds in there, 保存在化石中，你甚...
Here there were strange fossils called stramatolites. 这里有一种奇怪的化石，叫做叠层石 At the beginning of the mid-Jurassic we have these kind of structures here that represent stramatolites. 中侏罗世初期出现了这种表现为叠...
Judy's theory was that this would have transformed the world's climate. Judy的观点是这将改变全球气候 Different climate zones would have created new ecosystems and new ecosystems meant new life. 不同的气候带创造了新的生态系统，...
There is a word for this type of climate: monsoon, 这类气候有一个称谓，季风 but Judy's theory is that this was a monsoon like no other, a mega-monsoon. Judy的观点是它不是一般季风，而是超级季风 The word monsoon comes from...
In the rocks there were brown layers which came from old riverbeds. 岩石中有古老河床形成的褐色地层 Above this were grey layers made up of lake muds. 上面是湖泊泥渣形成的灰色地层 These two layers seemed to be evidence for...
Judy Parish has devoted her career to studying the climates of the past. Judy Parish一辈子都在研究古气候 It's sort of like mystery novels, so this is a little bit like a detective story, 这就像是悬疑小说，有点类似于侦探小说的...
When they looked further, there were clear signs that the fish had been killed by a volcanic eruption, 他们继续搜寻后发现，一些显著迹象表明这些鱼的确死于火山爆发 but then the evidence became more confusing. 可是后来的证...
It seemed a perfectly good theory, but the big test was: 这似乎是完美的理论，但关键问题是 was there any evidence that it actually had affected the dinosaurs? 是否有证据能证明这场事件真的影响了恐龙 Argentina was the...
It's very hard to imagine just the scale of the volcanism which starts off at this time. 当时的火山爆发规模大到无法想象的地步 It's vastly greater, several orders of magnitude greater, than anything we see on earth today. 它太剧烈了...
The rocks here are littered with this abundance of Jurassic sealife, but it doesn't last. 这里的岩石布满了侏罗纪海洋生物资源，但它并不是连续的 Further up the cliff there's a black layer and here the fossils just disappear. 在...
