Like modern arthropods, trilobites had compound eyes composed of many tiny lenses.

就像现代的物，三叶虫也有由许多小晶体组成的复眼。

And Scorpius, which isn't hard to imagine as a venomous arthropod.

还有蝎子座，不难把它想象成一种有毒的物。

The sea swarms with tiny arthropods today that have left no fossil record.

今天，海洋里充满着微小的物，它们没有留下化石。”

Well, six-legged arthropods also have this type of instrument.

其实六足虫也有这类乐器。

But arthropods have ventral nerves, and dorsal guts...you know, the poop chute.

但是物有腹神经和背肠子… 你懂的，就是粪便槽。

Scientists uncovered the ancient arthropods in a formation they described as similar to modern-day migrating spiny lobsters.

科学家发现了这些排成行的古代物，将其描述为与现代的迁徙龙虾类似。

Zika virus is an arbovirus, meaning it's transmitted via certain arthropods, specifically mosquitos, so it's a mosquito-borne virus.

寨卡病毒是一种虫媒病毒：即该病毒通过物传播，特别是蚊子，所以这是一种通过蚊子传播的病毒。

It was during this period that we see the earliest arthropods, the group that includes modern insects and crustaceans.

正是在这一时期，我们看到了最早的物，包括现代虫和甲壳类物。

Springtails are tiny soil arthropods that launch themselves into the air to avoid predators, or in this case my finger.

跳虫是微小的土壤物，它们会将自己发射到空中以避开捕食者，或者在这种情况下是我的手指。

And chitin is also the  basis for arthropod exoskeletons.

几丁质也是物外骨骼的基础。

In a single tree in this forest, we can find hundreds of thousands of arthropods representing over a thousand different species.

这片森林里的一棵树上我们就能找到数十万只物分别属于一千种不同种类。

The first animals to ever set foot on land were the arthropods.

{\an8}（3.45亿年前）率先踏上陆地的物是物。

And over time, some animals like arthropods developed hard exoskeletons to protect themselves.

随着时间的推移，一些像物这样的物 发展出坚硬的外骨骼来保护自己。

And then if you go to all arthropods, Oh… . there's the coconut crab.

然后如果你去所有的物，哦......有椰子蟹。

First, we know that other types of arthropods swam in the open ocean, hunting their prey.

首先，我们知道其他类型的物在开阔的海洋中游， 捕食它们的猎物。

By surfing on edible rafts  made of arthropod exoskeletons?

在物外骨骼制成的可食用筏上冲浪？

All that oxygen was also a plus for the arthropods, which got HUGE in the Carboniferous.

所有这些氧气对物来说也是一个加分项， 它们在石炭纪获得了巨大的收益。

The continents were home to only some sparse plants and fungi, and a few pioneering arthropods.

这些大陆只有一些稀疏的 植物和真菌，以及一些开创性的物。

They'd follow in the footsteps of the arthropods, to become the first vertebrates to live on dry ground.

他们会追随物的脚步，成为第一批生活在干燥地面上的脊椎物。

But insects, and other arthropods, weren't always so small.

但是虫和其他物并不总是这么小。