Name: 潛入佛羅里達「冰河時期祕境」！揭開萬年史前洞穴的驚人秘密 (Diving into Florida’s prehistoric cave of Ice Age secrets | BBC Global)
Uploaded: 2025-12-02T21:01:30.000Z
Duration: 4 min 2 s

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Every year, millions are captivated by Florida's dazzling springs.

每年，數百萬人被佛羅裡達州迷人的泉水所吸引。

But beneath their sparkling surface lies a deep history few have ever imagined.

但在閃閃發光的表面之下，卻藏著一段鮮為人知的深厚歷史。

The Florida Springs are an incredibly rich site for Ice Age fossils.

佛羅裡達泉水是冰河時期化石的極其豐富的寶庫。

These animals lived on the banks of the rivers, and

as they died, their bones fell into the springs.

當牠們死亡時，骨頭就掉進了泉水裡。

Florida's landscapes are unique because they're full of these sinkholes.

佛羅裡達的景觀很獨特，因為到處都是這些沉穴。

Today, there are rivers that flow over these sinkholes, and

there are natural springs that come out of them.

And paleontologists can go out there and find the bones of things like mammoths and mastodons.

而古生物學家可以在那裡找到長毛象和乳齒象的骨頭。

The Florida Museum is the second largest museum in the country and the fifth largest in the world.

佛羅裡達博物館是全國第二大、全球第五大的博物館。

And with over a million fossils, we have one of the most significant collections of Cenozoic life in North America.

我們擁有超過百萬件化石，是北美最重要的 Cenozoic 生命收藏之一。

Florida is home to over a thousand springs.

佛羅裡達有超過一千處的泉水。

Some, like Devil's Den, are sinkholes containing extraordinary Ice Age deposits.

有些，像是 Devil's Den，是含有非凡冰河時期沉積物的沉穴。

Devil's Den is like a lot of our sinkhole sites in Florida with crystal clear water.

Devil's Den 和佛羅裡達的許多沉穴地點一樣，水質清澈見底。

And if you snorkel there or dive there, you can dive down and actually see the bones of these extinct mammoths and mastodons.

如果你在那裡浮潛或潛水，你可以潛下去看到這些滅絕的長毛象和乳齒象的骨頭。

And some of the largest springs deliver more than 65 million gallons of fresh water every single day.

有些最大的泉水每天湧出超過六千五百萬加侖的淡水。

That is the case of Silver Springs State park, one of the top destinations in Florida.

這就是佛羅裡達頂級景點之一的 Silver Springs State park 的情況。

At the heart of this magnificent landscape stands a museum of natural history.

這片壯麗景觀的核心，矗立著一座自然歷史博物館。

If you get a chance and go over to Solar Springs, the Glass Bottom Boats is actually the biggest attraction that they have over there.

如果你有機會去太陽泉，玻璃底船其實是他們那裡最大的賣點。

Besides them renting canoes and kayaks and like that, so you can explore.

除了租獨木舟和划艇之外，你還可以去探索。

For thousands of years, these springs have been a cradle of life.

數千年來，這些泉水一直是生命的搖籃。

As we've learned so much about the extinction of these species and what caused them,

我們學到了這麼多關於這些物種滅絕的原因，

we can make sure that these living megafauna, like these elephants and rhinos, don't go extinct.

就能確保這些現存的巨型動物，像是大象和犀牛，不會滅絕。

And it's kind of sad, because if they they do, the largest land mammal left is going to be a cow.

這有點令人難過，因為如果牠們滅絕了，剩下最大的陸地哺乳動物將會是牛。

And that's not a kind of world that I want to live in.