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Sites like these where many plant-eating dinosaurs have been killed in an accident
像這種植食恐龍集體死于意外的地點
lead paleontologists to believe these herbivores were living together in herds when they died together.
使得古生物學家相信，這些植食動物直到死前都是群居生活
With plant-eating dinosaurs, it's very frequent to find groups of animals preserved together in the rocks.
對于植食恐龍來說，成批的骨骼一起埋葬于巖石中是很常見的現象
Because they're all associated together closely, and they're mixed ages together,
因為它們都親密無間，大大小小都聚在一起
that's good evidence they were living together as a herd.
這些證據都能充分說明，它們是群居生活的
Bone beds containing herds of plant-eating dinosaurs are common.
植食恐龍的骨骼化石群是很常見的
But there was no such convincing evidence that large meat-eating dinosaurs lived and died in groups.
但是并沒有類似的證據能證明大型食肉恐龍也是同生共死
In the case of the early fossil finds of meat-eating dinosaurs,
根據早期發(fā)現的食肉恐龍化石
they sort of reinforce this idea of meat-eaters as solitary hunters.
他們更加確信了大型食肉恐龍獨自狩獵的觀點
People had only found individual specimens of each of the species.
人們每次只能找到某種恐龍的一具標本
They never found a group of assemblages, they never found a bunch of individuals together.
他們從來沒有發(fā)現過一群食肉恐龍，或是聚在一起的食肉恐龍
All of the evidence indicated these predators lived and died as solitary hunters.
所有證據都顯示，這些掠食動物是孤獨的獵手
And if they were solitary hunters, no single carnivore, however big,
倘若它們真是獨自狩獵，單憑一只食肉恐龍，無論它有多大
would have gone for a prey as huge as the giant herbivore, Argentinosaurus.
也不可能將巨大的植食恐龍--阿根廷龍變成它的腹中之物
It looks like the tantalizing idea of a clash of the titans down in Patagonia was doomed.
看來調足人們胃口的巴塔哥尼亞，巨獸之爭純粹只是天方夜譚
Or so most paleontologists thought.
至少大部分古生物學家是這么想的
