They discovered that snakes aren'tclosely related to monitor lizards.

他们发现了什么呢？他们发现了蛇与巨蜥并没有密切的关系。

Absolutely, so I have a lot of monitors, lizards, and they have a lot of personality.

当然了，我有很多显示器、蜥蜴，它们很有个性。

So instead, scientists at Penn Stateanalyzed the genes of their closest living relatives, the monitor lizards.

所以宾夕法尼亚州立大学的科学家们分析了它们现存的最近亲属巨蜥的基因。

Or the monitor lizard. It's a huge lizard. It can grow up to maybe four meters.

或者是巨蜥。那是巨大的蜥蜴。它可以长到四米长。

Monitor lizards are not to be overlooked.

巨蜥不容忽视。

Take, for instance, the Komodo dragon, a giant monitor lizard that today lives on a handful of islands in eastern Indonesia.

以科摩多龙为例、一种巨大的巨蜥，如今生活在印度尼西亚东部的少数几个岛屿上。

Mosasaurs like this Clidastes were reptilian relatives of modern monitor lizards and snakes.

像这种 Clidastes 这样的沧龙是现代巨蜥和蛇的爬行动物亲戚。

So I looked at a lot of monitor lizards and brought qualities of crocodilians in there that I liked, as well.

RJ：所以我看了很多巨蜥，也带来了我喜欢的鳄鱼的品质。

And the results suggested that snakes' closest relatives are probably the Varanid lizards, a group that includes monitor lizards and Komodo dragons.

结果表明， 蛇类的近亲可能是瓦拉尼德蜥蜴，该类群包括巨蜥和科莫多巨蜥。

Mosasaurs, for example, descended from terrestrial lizards similar to modern day monitor lizards, while the ancestors of the metriorhynchids were croc-relatives that lived on land!

例如， 沧龙是类似于现代巨蜥的陆生蜥蜴的后代，而后喙龙的祖先是生活在陆地上的鳄鱼亲戚！

Jungle trekking is another major draw, as paths here zigzag through the islands, connecting beaches with each other and cutting through dense forests where monitor lizards and monkeys live.

丛林徒步是另一个吸引人的地方，因为这里的小路蜿蜒穿过岛屿，将海滩彼此连接起来， 并穿过巨蜥和猴子居住的茂密森林。

Originally semi-nomadic, the Kusunda lived in the jungles of west Nepal until the middle of the 20th Century, hunting birds and monitor lizards, and trading yams and meat for rice and flour in nearby towns.

库孙达人原本是半游牧民族，直到20世纪中叶一直生活在尼泊尔西部的丛林中，他们以捕食鸟类和巨蜥为生，并在附近的城镇用山药和肉换取大米和面粉。

We can look at animals today such as crocodilians or some of the predatory lizards today like Monitor lizards that also don't really have particularly large cerebral hemispheres, yet they're capable of a variety of different kind of hunting styles.

我们可以看看如今的动物，比如说鳄鱼或是一些现代的掠食性蜥蜴，像是巨蜥，它们也没有非常膨大的大脑半球，但是却有能力采用一系列不同的狩猎方式。