You see, Encephalartos woodii, is what is known as a cycad, and cycads have been around for 300 million years.

你看，伍德苏铁就是我们所知的苏铁，并且苏铁植物已经存在三亿年了。

Because it was so heavily armored, it could only eat low vegetation, so ferns and cycad plants and low-lying shrubs.

因为它身披重甲，只能吃到较低的植物就是蕨类、苏铁类植物和低矮的树丛。

Early on, ferns and cycads dominated the landscape.

早期，蕨类植物和苏铁植物在景观中占主导地位。

Characterized by a palm-like appearance, cycads are types of plants.

苏铁的特点是外观像手掌，是一种植物。

Before these early bloomers, conifers, ferns and cycads were the dominant plants.

在这些早期的灯笼裤之前，针叶树、蕨类植物 和苏铁是主要植物。

AZUZ : Ten-second trivia: A cycad is a type of what?

AZUZ ： 十秒琐事：苏铁是一种什么？

And then there were the cycads--seed bearing plants with tough spiky trunks and green fronds on top.

然后是苏铁——结籽的植物，树干坚硬，尖尖的，顶部有绿色的叶子。

The pollen it picked up was from a gymnosperm – the group that includes pines, cycads, and ginkgoes.

它采集的花粉来自裸子植物——包括松树、苏铁和银杏在内的植物群。

As the millennium rolled on, cycads flourished providing shade for triceratops, a perch for pterodactyls, and a tasty snack for brontosauruses.

在几千年的时间流逝中，苏铁蓬勃发展，为三角龙撑起了片片阴凉，为翼手龙提供了栖息处，并为雷龙提供了美味的食物。

Cycads have cones with seeds that are directly fertilized by pollen.

苏铁有球果，种子直接由花粉受精。

Analysis of the pollen showed that it was mostly from a mix of gymnosperm plants, including cycads and ginkgos.

对花粉的分析表明， 它主要来自裸子植物的混合物，包括苏铁和银杏。

Scientists compare it to a savannah - but with cycads and short ferns, instead of grass, which hadn't evolved yet.

科学家们将它比作大草原——但有苏铁和矮蕨类植物，而不是尚未进化的草。

At one point during the Jurassic, cycads made up 20% of all the plants on Earth, and covered every corner of the globe.

在侏罗纪时期，苏铁占地球上所有植物的20%，并且覆盖了全球的每个角落。

New modern plants like conifers and fruit trees started pushing cycads out and the once proud population of e.

针叶树和果树等新的现代植物开始淘汰苏铁和曾经引以为豪的大肠杆菌。

You see cycads are dioecious, meaning you need separate male and female plants to create a new one.

你看苏铁是雌雄异株的，这意味着你需要分开的雄性和雌性植物来创造一个新的植物。

As the millennium rolled on, cycads flourished, providing shade for triceratops, a perch for pterodactyls and a tasty snack for brontosaurus.

随着千禧年的到来，苏铁蓬勃发展，为三角龙提供了荫凉，为翼手龙提供栖息地，为雷龙提供美味小吃。

And one interesting thing about cycads is that scientists believe there used to be many more of them that there are today.

AZUZ：关于苏铁的一件有趣的事情是，科学家们认为过去苏铁的数量比现在多得多。

At one point, during the Jurassic, cycads made up 20 percent of all the plants on earth and covered every corner of the globe.

曾几何时，在侏罗纪时期，苏铁占地球上所有植物的 20%，覆盖了地球的每一个角落。

Lots of ferns, lots of cycads, lots of ginkkos, plants be interesting plants, but of course none of them flowering plants, or grasses, or fruits, or anything like that.

有很多蕨类，很多苏铁，很多银杏，都是有趣的植物，不过当然它们中没有花、草、水果之类的植物。

You see, cycads are dioecious, meaning, you need separate male and female plants to create a new one, and this one happens to be a male, a true lonely bachelor.

你看，苏铁是雌雄异株的，这意味着你需要有一株雄树和一株雌树才能培育出一棵小苏铁，而这恰好是一棵雄树，一个彻头彻尾的单身汉。