By the 1990s, paleontologists actually started referring to this tail feature as a thagomizer.

到 1990 年代，古生物学家实际上开始将这种尾巴特征称为 thagomizer。

Now, I'm sure you're wondering about the thagomizer's name.

现在，我确定你想知道 thagomizer 的名字。

It had a secret weapon: the thagomizer.

因为：它有一个秘密武器：thagomizer。

Not all stegosaurids had thagomizers, but for those that did, like Stegosaurus and Kentrosaurus, fossil evidence suggests they were verrry effective weapons.

并非所有的剑龙科动物都有触骨器，但对于那些有触骨器的动物， 如剑龙和肯特罗龙，化石证据表明它们是非常有效的武器。

And when I interviewed Dr. Robert Bakker, the researcher who studied the Wyoming Allosaurus, he assured me that thagomizer is an accepted term for a stegosaurid's spiky tail.

当我采访研究怀俄明异特龙的研究员罗伯特·巴克 (Robert Bakker) 博士时，他向我保证，thagomizer 是剑龙科动物尖尾的公认术语。