The skulls of archosaurs were lighter than their reptile ancestors.

主龙类头骨比 它们爬动物祖先轻。

Some archosaurs, like crocodylians, have been shown to exhibit general parenting behavior.

一些主龙，如鳄鱼，已被证明表现出一般养育为。

After the Permo-Triassic extinction, pseudosuchians were the first group of archosaurs to diversify and become common.

在二叠-三叠灭绝之后，伪鳄是第一批多样化并变得普遍主龙类。

Arbour studied the tail anatomy of ankylosaurs and compared it to that found in living archosaurs, like crocodilians.

Arbor 研究了甲龙剖结构，并将其与现存主龙类（如鳄鱼）进了比较。

The End-Triassic extinction saw the end of many of the pseudo sukian archosaurs that were dominant during the Triassic.

三叠灭绝见证了许多在三叠期间占主导地位伪苏氏主龙终结。

Pterosaurs, another group of archosaurs (or " ruling reptiles" ) like the dinosaurs, may have developed feathers earlier than their dino cousins did.

翼龙是另一种像恐龙一样祖龙（或“统治型爬动物”)，可能比它们恐龙表亲更早进化出了羽毛。

Most paleontologists consider pterosaurs to be a type of archosaur, a group that includes dinosaurs and crocodiles, among other things.

大多数古生物学家认为翼龙是一种主龙类，包括恐龙和鳄鱼等。

But after the extinction event at the end of the Cretaceous, the non-avian dinosaurs and other large archosaurs were gone.

但是在白垩期灭绝事件之后，非鸟类恐龙和其他大型始祖龙就消失了。

Around 250 million years ago, during the Triassic period, a class of reptiles called archosaurs split into two main groups.

大约 2.5 亿年前三叠时期，一种叫做主龙爬动物分为两大类。

Meanwhile, with these predators running around, another line of plant-eating archosaurs, the aetosaurs, came to be covered in bony armor.

与此同时，随着这些食肉动物四处奔跑，另一支以植物为食主龙，即始龙，开始披上了骨质盔甲。

During the Triassic Period a group of animals branched off from the archosaur family tree at roughly the same time that dinosaurs did.

在三叠时期，一群动物从主龙科树中分支出来时间与恐龙大致相同。

But based on its physical features, most studies classify Scleromochlus as an early ornithodiran, one of those " bird-line archosaurs" that include the pterosaurs.

但根据它身体特征， 大多数研究将 Scleromochlus 归类为早期鸟龙类，是包括翼龙在内“鸟系主龙” 之一。

And some of the archosaurs they used were maternal, meaning that parenting is done by the females, and some were paternal, where the dads do the work.

他们使用一些主龙是母性，这意味着育儿是由雌性完成，而有些是父性，父亲负责工作。

The study then compared that data with the same info from different groups of living archosaurs, the group that includes birds, non-avian dinosaurs, and also all of the crocodylians.

然后，该研究将该数据与来自不同现存主龙类群相同信息进了比较，该类群包括鸟类、非鸟类恐龙以及所有鳄鱼。

Today, we know that pterosaurs are a type of  archosaur, which means that they're part of the larger group that includes dinosaurs, birds, and  crocodilians, but this wasn't always so certain.

今天，我们知道翼龙是主龙一种，这意味着它们属于更大类群， 包括恐龙、鸟类和鳄鱼，但这并不总是那么确定。

For example, some lineages of reptiles took on the role of apex predators on land, and by 240 million years ago, a group of archosaurs, the rauisuchids, appear in the fossil record.

例如， 一些爬动物谱系在陆地上扮演了顶级掠食者角色，到 2.4 亿年前，化石记录中出现了一群主龙类劳氏鳄。