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Suddenly his Geiger counter sprang into life,
他的蓋格計數(shù)器數(shù)值突然劇烈跳動
but when he dug down it wasn't a uranium mine he found, but dinosaur bones.
但是他挖出來的并不是鈾礦，而是恐龍骨骼
The surprise wasn't that the bones had become radioactive that often happens when fossils form
骨骼具有放射性并不奇怪，當(dāng)化石形成時這經(jīng)常發(fā)生
what was really amazing was that the radioactive dinosaur came from the mysterious mid-Jurassic
真正令人驚奇的是這些放射性的恐龍骨骼來自神秘的中侏羅世
and all around, as far as the eye could see, were rocks of the same age.
而我們能看到的周圍所有這些巖石都屬于同一地質(zhì)年代
News of the find reached palaeontologist Oliver Rauhut. He decided to take a look.
古生物學(xué)家Oliver Rauhut得到了這個消息。他決定去那里看一看。
The area up here in Patagonia has some fantastic outcrops of middle Jurassic rocks.
巴塔哥尼亞的這片地區(qū)有一些奇特裸露的中侏羅世巖石
That means we have a real chance to get, for one thing,
也就是說我們首先很有可能找到
dinosaurs from the middle Jurassic which are very, very rare worldwide.
在全世界都非常非常稀少的中侏羅世恐龍。
With this we have the hope to really get a big piece of the puzzle in the middle Jurassic.
有了它，我們就有希望拼出一幅中侏羅世的全景圖。
