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Single bones will not do.
一塊骨骼是沒有用的
This window on the mid-Jurassic would have to contain more than just dinosaurs.
這個中侏羅世“窗口”必須包含恐龍之外的東西
We need fossils of all the other animals that lived with the dinosaurs.
我們還需要與恐龍一起生活的其它動物的化石
And not just the animals.
而且不僅只是動物
You want to look at the plants so you can actually try and work out what was around,
我們還想找到植物，這樣就能試著推想當(dāng)時周圍的環(huán)境
what these animals might have been eating
這些動物可能吃些什么
and start building up more of a, how can I say, a piece of that ecosystem.
然后開始構(gòu)建，怎么說呢，整個生態(tài)系統(tǒng)的場景
So not only can we piece together the puzzle of dinosaur evolution in the middle Jurassic,
所以我們不光只是拼湊中侏羅世的恐龍進(jìn)化歷程
but we can look at all the environmental changes that might have happened as well.
我們還能設(shè)想當(dāng)時整個生態(tài)環(huán)境的變化過程
But despite years of searching they couldn't find this perfect site
可是經(jīng)過數(shù)年的搜尋，他們?nèi)匀粵]有找到理想的地點
and without it the evolutionary master key to the mid-Jurassic remained elusive.
沒有了這把進(jìn)化密鑰，中侏羅世依舊神秘莫測
Finding a mid-Jurassic site became a great quest of dinosaur palaeontology
研究恐龍的古生物學(xué)家們迫切需要找到中侏羅世化石場
and then from Argentina came an unusual discovery.
后來，阿根廷有了不尋常的發(fā)現(xiàn)
A worker in the nuclear industry was prospecting for uranium in the heart of Patagonia.
一位核工業(yè)工作人員正在巴塔哥尼亞中心地帶勘探鈾礦。
