At new risk are cetaceans like the North Atlantic right whales.

对北大西洋露脊鲸这类鲸目科动物来讲同样面临着这种新的致命危险。

Very exciting discoveries have finally allowed scientists to reconstruct the most likely origins of cetaceans.

这项非常令人兴奋的发现终于使科学家们能够重建鲸目动物最有可能的起源。

I'm from Mystic Aquarium in Mystic, Connecticut. I'm a trainer of cetaceans and pinnipeds there.

我来自康涅狄格州的神秘水族馆。我是一名鲸目动物和鳍足类动物教练。

The skull also lacks a blowhole, another cetacean adaptation for diving.

颅骨上缺少一个可以进行适应性潜水的排气孔。

Roughly speaking, these animals filled the ecological niches now occupied by toothed cetaceans such as dolphins and killer whales.

大致上讲，这些动物填补了由现代齿鲸目动物海豚和虎鲸所占据的生态龛位。

It is one of the earliest whales and the oldest cetacean discovered that had functional legs.

它是最早发现的鲸目动物之一，也是最早发现的有腿的鲸目动物。

Ichthyosaurs also resembled cetaceans in another way: unlike most living reptiles, which lay eggs, they gave birth to live young.

大多数现存的爬行动物靠产卵繁殖，而鱼龙是通过怀胎产子的。

The venture cetaceans can be divided into three big subspecies, each typified by big-name investors.

创业鲸类可分为三大亚种，各以大牌投资人为代表。

Our frigate drew nearer to the cetacean. I examined it with a completely open mind.

我们的战舰埃近了这个鲸鱼类动物。

What can be this cetacean, which neither Cuvier nor Blumenbach knew anything about?

居维叶和布鲁门巴赫都不知道的这只鲸类动物到底是什么？

Every cetacean known to man is endangered.

任何人类已知的鲸类动物。

Some very early cetaceans have this ankle bone, too, which tells us that cetaceans evolved from artiodactyls.

一些非常早期的鲸类动物也有这种踝骨，这告诉我们鲸类动物是从偶蹄类进化而来的。

No argument, sir, since our craft breathes in the manner favored by cetaceans.

那不用说，先生，因为我们的船是跟鲸鱼类一般呼吸的。

If saving cetacean species from extinction.

如果依靠国际捕鲸委员会。

The authorities in Australia say a further 200 whales have become stranded off Tasmania, taking the total number of beached cetaceans to 470.

澳大利亚当局表示，又有200头鲸鱼在塔斯马尼亚搁浅，使搁浅的鲸类总数达到470头。

Like other aquatic mammals, such as dolphins and porpoises, this wolf-sized animal, known as Pakicetus, is part of the cetacean group.

像其他水生哺乳动物，如海豚和鼠海豚一样，这种体型像狼一样大小的动物被称为巴基斯坦古鲸，是鲸类的一员。

If it was a cetacean, it exceeded in bulk any whale previously classified by science.

如果它是鲸类动物，那么它的体积就超过了之前科学分类的任何鲸鱼。

I drew Conseil's attention to the considerable growth of the cerebral lobes found in these intelligent cetaceans.

我给康塞尔指出，这种聪明的鲸科动物，大脑叶特别发达。

And elephants, cetaceans, parrots and some rodents are suspected of it, though so far the evidence concerning them is anecdotal.

大象、鲸类动物、鹦鹉和一些啮齿动物被怀疑与它有关，尽管到目前为止有关它们的证据都是轶事。

The cetacean had rammed our frigate at about eleven o'clock in the evening.

战舰跟那鲸鱼冲撞的时间是在夜间十一点钟左右。