And it was in this environment where temnospondyls truly thrived.

正是在这种环境中，穿椎龙真正繁衍生息。

As far as paleontologists know, this was the last temnospondyl ever to grace the earth.

据古生物学家所知，这是最后一只出现在地球上的腾龙。

Now, despite all these variations among species, temnospondyls did share a few key traits.

现在，尽管物种之间存在所有这些差异，但 temnospondyls 确实具有一些关键特征。

But temnospondyls didn't live on land all of the time.

但 temnospondyls 并不总是生活在陆地上。

But many temnospondyl species were covered in scales.

但是许多 temnospondyl 物种被鳞片覆盖。

That's where the little, twenty-centimeter Balanerpeton became the first known temnospondyl to appear in the fossil record.

这就是 20 厘米长的小 Balanerpeton 成为第一个出现在化石记录中的已知 temnospondyl 的地方。