And in fact, this is the first record of an ankylosaur from Africa.

事实上，这是第一次在非洲发现的甲记录。

It was an early member of the evolutionary family that led to the dinosaur group called ankylosaurs.

它是进化家族的早期成员，终形成了叫做甲的恐群。

Now, not only that, it's also the oldest ankylosaur from anywhere in the world.

不仅如此，它还是世界上的甲。

I want to introduce to you 'Spicomellus afer', which is the oldest ankylosaur and the first from Africa.

我想给大家介绍非洲刺圈，它是的甲，也是第一次在非洲发现的甲。

We found that it has a tissue type that we only find in ankylosaurs among dinosaurs of this age.

我们发现它的组织类型是侏罗纪中期恐中只出现在甲身上的。

It's T-shaped in cross-section and we only see T-shaped ribs in stegosaurs and in ankylosaurs.

横截面呈 T 形，只出现在剑类和甲类身上。

That, she and her colleagues reckon, was to bash other ankylosaurs.

她和她的同事认为，这是为了打击其他甲。

Stegosaurs are very much like their armored cousin the ankylosaurs in having very small forelegs and very long hind legs.

剑的前腿很短而后腿又很长，这一点很像它们带甲的亲戚甲。

Dyoplosaurus was the first ankylosaur discovered with evidence of a tail club.

Dyoplosaurus 是第一个发现有尾巴棒状证据的甲。

Comparing ankylosaurs with animals alive today suggests that it was.

将甲与今天活着的动物进行比较，表明它的确会这么做。

And you definitely would not want to get hit by an ankylosaur tail club.

而且您绝对不想被甲尾部棍棒击中。

Ankylosaurs probably used armor as their main mode of defense.

甲可能使用盔甲作为它们的主要防御方式。

Now you might think that this piece of equipment is pretty typical for an ankylosaur.

现在你可能会认为这件装备对于甲来说是非常典型的。

We could finally answer with certainty whether ankylosaur tail clubs could've been used as a weapon.

我们终于可以肯定地回答甲尾巴棒是否可以用作武器。

The aetosaurs, for example, were gone, but stegosaurs and ankylosaurs eventually took their place as armor-covered herbivores.

例如，翼消失了，但剑和甲终取而代之， 成为披着盔甲的食草动物。

Those fights are over mates, which is what Dr Arbour suggests was also going on with ankylosaurs.

这些争斗是为了配偶，阿伯博士认为甲也是如此。

This one belonged to a kind of ankylosaur, known as anodontosaur.

这个尾锤属于一种甲，它被称为无齿甲。

Fossils show ankylosaur tails had similar adaptations.

化石显示甲的尾巴有类似的适应性。

I found that large ankylosaur tail clubs impacted with somewhere between 35,000 and 70,000 newtons of force.

我发现大型甲尾部棍棒受到大约 35,000 到 70,000 牛顿的力的影响。

Strangely enough, it looks like the earliest ankylosaur tail clubs actually started out … clubless.

奇怪的是，看起来早的甲尾部棒状物实际上是从… … 无棒状的开始的。