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Finding one dinosaur wasn't enough to unlock the secrets of the mid-Jurassic
找到一只恐龍并不足以解開中侏羅世之謎
and there was no guarantee they would find more, and worse, the site was huge,
他們不能肯定是否還能找到更多的東西，更糟的是，這個(gè)地方太大了
so Oliver quickly pulled together a small team to start searching this vast area for bones.
于是Oliver很快組建了一支小分隊(duì)，開始在這片廣大地區(qū)尋找骨骼
It was a massive task. They would have to comb over a thousand square miles of trackless desert.
這是一項(xiàng)艱巨的任務(wù)。他們必須搜索數(shù)千平方英里的荒涼沙漠
They might have spent weeks looking and found nothing, but Oliver was lucky.
他們可能連續(xù)數(shù)周一無所獲，不過Oliver很幸運(yùn)
On day one he struck fossil gold.
第一天他就找到了化石“金礦”
It was a dinosaur leg bone and crucially, it was from the mysterious mid-Jurassic,
這是一塊恐龍腿骨，更重要的是，它來自神秘的中侏羅世
so the radioactive dinosaur was not a one-off.
看來放射性的恐龍并非只有一只
The next 10 days we started looking for fossils systematically here
后來的10天，我們開始有系統(tǒng)地在這里尋找
and we found bones over here, we found more bones over there.
我們在這里找到了骨骼，在那邊找到了更多骨骼
We went further inwards here, further into the valley and found even more material there.
我們深入這個(gè)地方，深入山谷，找到了更多資料
And that was just the first valley.
而這只是第一座山谷。
