Unable to crack her victim's tough armor, all she manages to walk away with is a bony scute.

由于无法击破牺牲品坚固的盔甲，它试图带着这个骨盾离开。

Like the glyptodont, they are covered in a layer of bony scutes.

和雕齿兽一样，犰狳的身上也覆盖着一层骨鳞。

The outer layer of skin cells produces the scales, known as scutes, that cover the carapace.

最外层的皮肤细胞长成鳞甲，将背甲覆盖住。

The scutes, around 2,000 of them, once formed the shell of a huge animal called the glyptodont.

雕齿兽这种大型动物的外壳上就曾经有着2000片左右的骨鳞。

The most recent theory is that stegosaurs had scutes because … they just looked awesome.

最近的理论是剑龙长有鳞片是因为… … 它们看起来棒极了。

For a long time, it was argued that the scutes were there for thermoregulation.

很长一段时间，有人认为盾牌是用来调节体温的。

Now you might also think that the scutes were defensive.

现在你可能还认为盾牌是防御性的。

Now, by far the most recognizable parts of a stegosaurid are the bony plates along its back, often called scutes.

现在，到目前为止， 剑龙科动物最容易辨认的部分是其背部的骨板，通常称为盾片。

In the 1970s, researchers found tubes running through some fossilized scutes, and thought that they may have circulated blood through the plates to radiate heat.

在 20 世纪 70 年代， 研究人员发现管子穿过一些盾牌化石，并认为它们可能通过板循环血液以散发热量。

The idea was that over time, the scutes found in pareiasaurs could have fused into a solid protective layer, eventually combining with the ribs to form a shell.

这个想法是， 随着时间的推移， 在翼龙身上发现的盾片可能已经融合成一个坚固的保护层，最终与肋骨结合形成一个外壳。

Keep in mind, this was basically the opposite of what the paleontologists were proposing — that the shell on top evolved from scutes that fused together before combining with the ribs below.

请记住，这基本上与古生物学家的提议相反——顶部的壳是从盾片进化而来的，盾片在与下面的肋骨结合之前融合在一起。

Leatherback and softshell turtles have shells without the ring of bone around the edge of the carapace or the tough scutes covering it, making it easier for them to squeeze into tight spaces.

棱皮龟和软壳龟的壳没有围绕甲壳边缘的骨环或覆盖它的坚硬盾甲，使它们更容易挤进狭小的空间。

They might not have had the biggest brains, but they cut a distinctive figure back in the Jurassic, with their scutes and their spiky tails, which they knew how to use.

他们可能没有最聪明的大脑，但他们在侏罗纪时代留下了一个与众不同的形象，他们的盾牌和尖尖的尾巴，他们知道如何使用。

These are sometimes called the " ugliest reptiles, " but we don't judge here Bradysaurus, for example, lived around 260 million years ago, in the Permian Period, and it was covered in a layer of hardened scutes.

这些有时被称为“最丑陋的爬行动物”，但我们不在这里判断，例如，Bradysaurus 生活在大约 2.6 亿年前的二叠纪时期，它被一层硬化的盾牌覆盖。

Not " scutes" by the way, I looked it up... scutes And if you want to start a real, brawl among a bunch of paleontologists, just ask them what those scutes were for.

顺便说一下，不是“盾牌”，我查了一下… … 盾牌如果你想在一群古生物学家之间展开一场真正的争吵，只要问问他们那些盾牌是干什么用的。