Name: 為什麼現在是古生物學的黃金時代？ (Why Now is the Golden Age of Paleontology | Nat Geo Explores)
Uploaded: 2020-11-15T18:12:16.000Z
Duration: 6 min 28 s

we wanted more, more fossils, more art, more, well,

我們想要更多的，更多的化石，更多的藝術，更多的，嗯。

we're still discovering like never before.

我們還在探索前所未有的東西。

- Paleontology as a science started in the 1800s.

- 古生物學作為一門科學，始於19世紀。

Back then, we understood for the first time

they were a unique and different group of animals.

它們是一群獨特而不同的動物。

- [Narrator] Fossil discoveries were happening

Dinosaur bones were mistaken for mythological creatures

恐龍骨頭被誤認為是神話中的生物

可以告訴我們他們到底是什麼。

people connected these fossils to living creatures

人們把這些化石和生物聯繫在一起

Until Richard Owen, frenemy of Charles Darwin,

直到理查德-歐文，查爾斯-達爾文的敵人。

- [Narrator] New type of animal, big step forward.

- [旁白]新型動物，向前邁進了一大步。

we knew very, very little about dinosaurs.

所以，我們可以看到這個史前世界的景象。

Creativity brought dinosaurs to the cultural forefront.

創意將恐龍帶到了文化的前沿。

While these drawings, paintings, and sculptures

雖然這些圖畫、繪畫和雕塑作品

were initially based on scientific discoveries,

Our imaginations might've gotten a headstart,

我們的想象力可能已經得到了一個先機。

- Paleontology has been undergoing this massive revolution.

- 古生物學一直在經歷這場大規模的革命。

CT scanning, giving paleontologists a new look at dinosaurs.

CT掃描，讓古生物學家對恐龍有了新的認識。

you can look at the different parts of the brain,

because basically the bones that demarcate the brain cavity

are very good proxy for what the brain actually looked like.

是非常好的代理，大腦實際的樣子。

So there's a ton of new morphological information

that we can get through these high resolution

- [Narrator] This in depth view has been a game changer

- [旁白]這種深度觀察已經改變了遊戲規則。

that's where paleontology first grew as a science,

這就是古生物學作為一門科學最初發展的地方。

它們還沒有得到那麼多的探索。

There are so many expeditions being conducted right now,

現在有這麼多的考察活動在進行。

- [Narrator] Example, Diego's team in Patagonia

- 例子，迭戈在巴塔哥尼亞的團隊。

Fossil discoveries in China are also answering

- Birds are extremely rare in the fossil record,

- 鳥類在化石記錄中極為罕見。

Aerodynamics limits body size, so you can't get that big.

空氣動力學限制了體型，所以你不可能變得那麼大。

The other thing is that birds have hollow bones.

另外就是鳥類的骨頭是空心的。

they get destroyed, and they just don't survive.

他們得到破壞，他們只是不生存。

- [Narrator] Birds evolving from dinosaurs

並不是一個新的想法，但它是訪問的

that's finally providing the necessary evidence.

- The notion that birds are living dinosaurs

actually dates back to like the second half

A guy named Thomas Huxley, based on his observations,

一個叫托馬斯-赫胥黎的人，根據他的觀察。

that birds descended from small bipedal dinosaurs.

所有的鳥兒都有一根魚骨，對嗎？

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