Archaeopteryx is the one fossil that tells us that the birds outside our window are living dinosaurs.

始祖鸟化石让我们明白，窗外的鸟其实就是活生生的恐龙。

Actually, for a long time, Ostrom and others thought it was an Archaeopteryx.

其实在很长一段时间里，奥斯特罗姆等人都认为这是一只始祖鸟。

He has pointed to the example of Archaeopteryx.

他以始祖鸟为例。

I've got — so Archaeopteryx is a very famous fossil.

我知道——始祖鸟是一种非常著名的化石。

Archaeopteryx is the earliest known bird.

始祖鸟是已知最早的鸟类。

These ancient birds had short tails, instead of the longer bony tail of Archaeopteryx.

这些古老的鸟类有短尾巴，而 不是始祖鸟较长的骨尾巴。

It turned out to be the hand of an animal that was very similar to Archaeopteryx.

原来是一只与始祖鸟极为相似的动物之手。

Thomas Huxley, with in ten years, of the discovery of Archaeopteryx, put the whole thing together.

十年后，托马斯·赫胥黎 (Thomas Huxley) 发现了始祖鸟，他把所有的东西放在一起。

We also have shrimps, many other animals, but the most famous animal of all has to be Archaeopteryx.

我们还有虾和许多其他动物，但最著名的动物必须是始祖鸟。

The dinosaur-bird connection first came to light in the 1860s, when quarrymen in Germany discovered a fossil called Archaeopteryx.

恐龙与鸟类的联系在 1860 年代首次为人所知，当时德国的采石工人发现了一种名为始祖鸟的化石。

Archaeopteryx would have been identified as a Theropod dinosaur because it had a small skull with very sharp, serrated teeth.

始祖鸟会被认定为兽脚亚目恐龙，因为它的头骨很小，而且有非常锋利的锯齿状牙齿。

Archaeopteryx, on the other hand, did have rings, indicating that it was slow-growing and was probably more of an ectotherm.

另一方面，始祖鸟确实有环，表明它生长缓慢，可能更像是一种变温动物。

He was the first to describe the archaeopteryx after its discovery in Bavaria in 1861 and the first to write a formal epitaph for the dodo.

1861年，他在巴伐利亚发现了始祖鸟，是描述始祖鸟的第一人，也是为渡渡鸟写正式墓志铭的第一人。

Archaeopteryx belonged to a lineage of flying dinosaurs, called Avialae that sits between feathered theropods, like Deinonychus, and modern birds.

始祖鸟属于飞行恐龙的一个谱系，称为禽鸟科，它位于有羽毛的兽脚类动物（如恐爪龙）和现代鸟类之间。

But these ideas didn't really take hold until John Ostrom resurrected them in the 1970s, when he described Deinonychus as a bigger version of Archaeopteryx.

但这些想法并没有真正站稳脚跟，直到约翰·奥斯特罗姆 (John Ostrom) 在 1970 年代复活了它们，当时他将恐爪龙描述为更大版本的始祖鸟。

This Microraptor may have been a better flier than an Archaeopteryx, but for whatever reason, they went extinct, either by chance or... or because they weren't as good a flier.

这种小盗龙可能比始祖鸟飞行得更好，但无论出于何种原因，它们都灭绝了，要么是偶然，要么… … 或者因为它们的飞行能力不如始祖鸟。

Hesperornis and Ichthyornis were soon classified as ornithurines, a group of Mesozoic birds whose names means " bird tail." These ancient birds had short tails, instead of the longer bony tail of Archaeopteryx.

Hesperornis 和 Ichthyornis 很快被归类为鸟纲，这是一群中生代的鸟类， 其名字的意思是“鸟尾巴” 。 这些古老的鸟类有短尾巴，而不是始祖鸟的长骨质尾巴。

And 13 Archaeopteryx specimens have come out of the Solnhofen limestone of which probably the most beautiful, and I think probably the most beautiful fossil ever, is this one here which is the Berlin specimen.

索尔恩霍芬石灰岩中出土了 13 个始祖鸟标本，其中可能是最美丽的，而且我认为可能是有史以来最美丽的化石，就是这里的柏林标本。