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It seemed a perfectly good theory, but the big test was:
這似乎是完美的理論，但關鍵問題是
was there any evidence that it actually had affected the dinosaurs?
是否有證據能證明這場事件真的影響了恐龍
Argentina was the perfect place to look.
阿根廷是尋找答案的理想地點
At first there were some tantalising similarities between the rocks in Yorkshire and in Patagonia.
首先，約克郡和巴塔哥尼亞的巖層有許多顯著的相似點
They had found fossils from the bottom of a mid-Jurassic lake
他們找到了中侏羅世湖底生物的化石
and in these rocks they found one particular layer which was very strange.
他們發現巖石中的一個特殊地層非常奇怪
One fish here, another here, another one here and it's here there is another one,
這里有一條魚，又是一條，又是一條，又是一條
so many fishes all together in the same layer.
所以很多魚一起埋在同一個地層中
This layer was packed with hundreds of fish and they'd all died the same way: all the fish were twisted, contorted.
這個地層埋有數百條魚，它們都有同樣的死狀：每條魚都扭曲著，蜷成一團
They had clearly died a terrible death.
顯然它們死得很慘
Was this then evidence of a mass extinction?
那么這是否就是大滅絕的證據呢？
