n. 翼龙
1.Based on previous fossil finds paleontologists had estimated the largest pterosaur wingspans to be around33ft making it the largest ever animal to fly.
根据先前发现的化石,古生物学家原本估计,体型最大的翼龙的翼展可能在33英呎左右,荣登有史以来最大的飞翔动物的宝座。
2.Pterosaur bones have similar features, as do those of several other groups of Mesozoic reptiles.
翼手龙的骨骼也有相似的特征,其它一些种类的中生代爬行动物也是如此。
3.The pterosaur trackway is quadrupedal, with wide gauge.
翼龙足迹为四足行走,行迹宽。
4.When a pterosaur walked or remained stationary, the fourth finger, and with it the wing, could only turn upward in an extended inverted V-shape along each side of the animal's body.
当翼龙走路或静止时,第四指及其翼,只能向上翻转,成一个伸展且内翻的V型,在其身体两侧。
5.It also represents only the fourth pterosaur egg ever discovered.
这枚卵也是所发现的第四枚恐龙卵。
6.Instead, he says a pterosaur used all four limbs, leapfrogging forward on its knuckles, to propel itself into the air.
相反,他说翼龙使用它所有的四肢向前跑动,从而使自己飞到空中。