At sea, though, the most abundant reptiles were the ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs.

但是在海里，最繁盛的爬行动物要属鱼龙和蛇颈龙了。

Long before dolphins swam the seas, their near look-alike ichthyosaurs inhabited the earth's oceans.

远远早于海豚在海中畅游之前，外形与其极为相似的鱼龙就已经栖息在地球的海洋中了。

It is from a class of ancient marine creatures called ichthyosaurs, which resembled dolphins.

属于一种名为鱼龙的古代海洋生物，类似海豚。

Here, they have one of the most impressive and varied collections of ichthyosaurs in the world.

在这里，他们拥有世界上最令人印象深刻、种类最丰富的鱼龙收藏。

Now I spent most of my professional career of around 14 years studying thousands of ichthyosaurs.

我大部分的职业生涯，大概有 14 年，都在研究着数以千计的鱼龙。

The ichthyosaur died soon after swallowing it.

鱼龙吞下它后不久就死了。

The area is famous for its fossils from giant ichthyosaurs.

该地区以巨型鱼龙化石而闻名。

They identified fossils from at least 37 ichthyosaurs from the area, dating back about 230 million years.

他们在该地区发现了至少37只鱼龙的化石，可以追溯到大约2。3亿年前。

Of course, ichthyosaurs were not dinosaurs, but the Jurassic Park methodology is what's important.

当然，鱼龙不是恐龙，但《侏罗纪公园》中提到的方法才是重点。

So unfortunately, might seem a little bit counterintuitive, but we had to rebury the ichthyosaur.

所以，虽然看起来有点反直觉，但是我们不得不把鱼龙重新埋起来。

The name ichthyosaur means fish lizard.

鱼龙这个名字的意思是鱼蜥蜴。

" Yeah, maybe in life ichthyosaurs would have been cute—at least the smaller ones."

“是的，或许鱼龙在现实中会很可爱——至少体型更小。”

She had found the skeleton of a prehistoric reptile — the ichthyosaur.

她发现了一种史前爬行动物——鱼龙的骨架。

Hundreds of millions of years ago, reptilian predators called ichthyosaurs swam the seas.

亿万年前，名为“鱼龙”的爬行动物捕食者在海洋中游动。

The ichthyosaur bones in Nevada were found in the 1950s.

内华达州的鱼龙骨骼是在20世纪50年代发现的。

Motani was careful to say they're not sure exactly WHY the ichthyosaur perished.

Motani 谨慎表示他们不确定鱼龙究竟为何死亡。

Our Rutland ichthyosaur lived during the early Jurassic, around about 180 million years ago.

我们的拉特兰鱼龙 生活在侏罗纪早期，大概一亿八千万年前。

" Maybe in life ichthyosaurs would have been cute-at least the smaller ones."

“也许在生活中，鱼龙会很可爱——至少体型较小的是如此。”

Unfortunately, ichthyosaurs went extinct around 90 million years ago.

不幸的是，鱼龙大概在 九千万年前就灭绝了。

Ichthyosaurs and other contemporary viviparous species, by contrast, gave birth to multiple offspring.

对比之下，鱼龙和其它现代胎生物种可以生育多个后代。