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Oh it's completely new. By the time you get to the end of the Devonian for the very first time in Earth history
噢，它是全新的。到了泥盆紀末期，地球歷史上首次出現
animals and plants are living on land in a significant, permanent way.
動植物以一種重要而永恒的方式在陸地上生活
That's, that's brand new and a lot of open niches in that waiting to be exploited.
這都是全新的，許多開放的小生境正等著它們去開發
Those new niches were the margins of this watery world.
這些新的生境正是整個水世界的邊緣
In the tangle of vegetation limbs with fingers would have given tetrapods a unique advantage over fish.
在纏結交錯的植被中，擁有長趾頭的四肢將使四足動物比魚更具備獨特的優勢
I think we have to think of these fins or, or limbs, or flims as
我想我們應該都認同這些鰭，或者說是肢或腿
something that would be used by the animal for moving through more complex environments like swamps,
很可能是被用來在沼澤之類的復雜環境中穿梭移動
or environments that, where there may have been trees down in channels,
或是在樹枝掉落進水道的環境中，以及淺水中
or just shallow water to pursue prey or to escape the guy who's trying to prey upon you.
搜捕獵物和躲避想要吃掉它的天敵
And there was most definitely something from which to escape.
而且那時的確有需要避讓的東西
Over and over again Daeschler and his team found evidence of a fish called hyneria, a predator of terrifying proportions.
Daeschler和他的小組一次又一次地發現一種叫做含肺魚的化石證據，它是一種體型巨大的恐怖掠食者
Hyneria is the most common, lobe-finned fish at this site. It's also the biggest.
含肺魚是整個地方最常見的肉鰭魚，它也是最大的
It's probably two or three metres long.
它可能有2--3米長
This, this is a single tooth from a large hyneria and these were carnivorous obviously.
這是含肺魚的一顆牙齒，可見它是食肉動物
