These are two whole coelacanth in our preserved in alcohol.

这是我们在酒精中保存的两条完整的腔棘鱼标本。

So the coelacanth, they thought it was extinct.

腔棘鱼之前被认为已经灭绝了。

People thought the coelacanth disappeared 70 million years ago until it was discovered alive and well in 1938.

人们以为腔棘鱼7000万年以前就灭绝了，但1938年却发现它们依然存在。

Even the modern coelacanth, on closer examination, had to be put in a different genus from any known fossil.

经过仔细观察，甚至就连现代腔棘鱼都必须得归类于不同于任何已知化石的种类。

There are arthropods from the site with soft tissue preservation and even a coelacanth with preserved embryos.

有软组织保存的节肢动物，甚至还有保存有胚胎的腔棘鱼。

It takes special conditions for fossilization to happen, and, for whatever reason, the places that coelacanths like just don't preserve fossils very well.

化石化的发生需要特殊的条件，而且无论出于何种原因， 腔棘鱼喜欢的地方都不能很好地保存化石。

These are things like your nautiluses, your coelacanths, your ginkgo trees -- organisms that look basically the same today as they do in the fossil record.

这些生物就像你的鹦鹉螺、腔棘鱼、银杏树——今天看起来与化石记录中的生物基本相同的生物。

But a science mission about to get underway is going to go looking for more coelacanth in the deep waters off the Indian Ocean islands called the Seychelles.

但是，一项即将开始的科学任务将在印度洋岛屿的深水中寻找更多的腔棘鱼，该岛为塞舌尔群岛。

So our relationship to the ocean even though we came from lungfish, from coelacanths, and we're now going back in the water in really cool submarines, we're still really new to the ocean.

所以我们和海洋的关系，尽管我们来自肺鱼，腔棘鱼，现在我们要回到水中乘坐非常酷的潜艇，我们对海洋仍然很陌生。

But many different kinds of fish were also present, including coelacanths, as well as marine reptiles like ichthyosaurs and the ridiculously long-necked tanystropheids that don't really look like anything today.

但也有许多不同种类的鱼，包括腔棘鱼， 以及像鱼龙这样的海洋爬行动物， 以及长得可笑的长颈长尾龙， 它们在今天看起来一点都不像。

The big, primitive-looking fish known as the coelacanth was thought to have been extinct for 66 million years, until one was hauled up off the coast of South Africa in the 1930s.

腔棘鱼这种外形原始的大型鱼类被认为已经灭绝了 6600 万年，直到 1930 年代从南非海岸打捞上来一条。