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Almost all life in every shape and form across the surface of the globe would have died.
地球上各種各樣的生物幾乎全都遇難。
Here at long last was an explanation that tied up all the loose ends and accounted for all the evidence.
終于有了一種解釋能拼湊起所有這些零碎資料，并說(shuō)明所有的證據(jù)。
The cause of the Permian mass extinction may finally have been found.
科學(xué)家們或許真的找到了二疊紀(jì)生物大滅絕的原因。
It would take nearly 100,000 years for life on earth to begin to recover.
直到10萬(wàn)年以后地球才開(kāi)始恢復(fù)生機(jī)。
When it did, a new family of creatures ruled the world.
那時(shí)一類(lèi)新的物種統(tǒng)治了世界。
This was the birth of the age of the dinosaurs,
恐龍時(shí)代由此開(kāi)啟，
but geologists have found that one of the strange, half mammal/half reptiles of the Permian world did survive.
但是地質(zhì)學(xué)家們發(fā)現(xiàn)二疊紀(jì)的一種奇特的半哺乳類(lèi)半爬行類(lèi)動(dòng)物也活了下來(lái)。
It was a cow-sized plant eater called lystrosaurus.
它是一種和牛一樣大的植食動(dòng)物，叫做水龍獸。
This strange looking creature is one of the most important animals that ever walked the earth,
這種模樣奇怪的動(dòng)物是地球史上最重要的陸地動(dòng)物之一，
because lystrosauras was the ancestor of all mammals and so, ultimately, of us.
因?yàn)檫@些水龍獸正是所有哺乳動(dòng)物的祖先，當(dāng)然也是我們的祖先。
We're only here today because this odd looking creature somehow clung to life during the mother of all distinctions.
我們今天之所以在世上，就是因?yàn)檫@些長(zhǎng)相古怪的家伙頑強(qiáng)地挺過(guò)了地球上最慘烈的一場(chǎng)生物大滅絕。
