Growth lines in fossilised dinosaur embryos found elsewhere suggest they needed as much as six or seven months of incubation before they were ready to hatch.

在其他地方发现的恐龙胚胎化石中的生长线表明它们需要6到7个月的孵化期才能孵化。

A clam dredged from the ocean off Iceland in 2006-and inadvertently killed by the scientists who discovered it- carried growth lines on its shell indicating it had been around since 1499.

2006年从冰岛附近的海域打捞上来的蛤——又被发现它的科学家不小心给弄死了——的壳上有生长线记录着它从1499年就活着了。

Where you have a white band that is growth during the favorable season, and then you have a growth line that indicates growth stopped for a period of time, and then afterward, it resumes.

你会看到一圈白条，这表示骨骼在有利季节的生长。然后你会看到一条生长线，表示生长停止了一段时间，之后又恢复了。

Like tree rings… Chinsamy-Turan: Where you have a white band that is growth during the favorable season, and then you have a growth line that indicates growth stopped for a period of time, and then afterward, it resumes.

就像树木的年轮… … Chinsamy-Turan：在有利季节生长的白色条带，然后有一条生长线，表明生长停止了一段时间，然后又恢复了。