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Darren, I do love these museum collections when you come behind the scenes and you suddenly feel that you are surrounded by treasures. And it's amazing to think that there are new discoveries to be made in here as well.
達倫，我真的很喜愛這些博物館收藏，當你來到幕后時，突然感覺自己被財寶包圍著。一想到在這里將會有新的發現，也會讓人覺得不可思議。
That's right in a way. There are almost too many specimens for the number of experts out there. There is always new stuff to find in collections. You aren't necessary to go out to a field and look for dinosaurs. You can just rummage through museum floors. You will find something new.
在某種程度上，這是對的。對于眾多在外探索的專家而言，標本的數量相對有限。在收集的標本上總會有新發現。你沒有必要去野外的遺址尋找恐龍。只要在博物館的地板上仔細翻閱，就會有新的發現。
Recently Darren and a colleague did exactly that. They came across a bone which had been lying on a museum shelf since Victorian times. It may look unremarkable but with several unique features, it didn't fit with anything which had been found before. And it was enough for them to describe a new species.
最近達倫和一位同事的確這樣做了。他們碰到一塊骨化石，它自維多利亞時代起就一直躺在博物館的架子上。它看起來不顯眼，但卻有幾處獨一無二的特征，這與之前發現的任何恐龍并不契合。而且這足以讓他們來描述一個新物種。
About 50 new species of dinosaurs named every year. About 90% of all named dinosaurs have been named since about 1990. If you were to generate a discovery curve of dinosaurs overtime, you would have a curve that shaped like this. And we are currently on the steep upward curve of the graph.
每年大概會給50個新物種命名。自上世紀90年代年起，幾乎90%的恐龍均被命名。如果你發現的新恐龍來自于更早的時代，那么形狀應該是這樣的。目前我們的圖表是陡峭的上升的曲線。
Why do you think there is such a craze for naming new dinosaurs at the moment?
你認為在那時為什么會出現給恐龍命名的熱潮？
Regions of the world have been explored more. They haven't been really looked at much beforehand. So places like southern South America, much of the central Asia, parts of Africa and Australia, more and more people are going out to those places, finding new dinosaurs and bringing them back.
在世界范圍內已經進行探索了許多。他們預先并沒有太多依據可以參照。因此在南美南部地區，大多數中亞地區，部分非洲及澳洲地區，越來越多的人來到這些地方，尋找新的恐龍并帶回去。
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