It's not like singing or other behaviors can be fossilized!

唱歌或者其他行为很难有石记录！

And since the seashell stuff is basically rock, the iridescence can even be seen after these shells fossilized.

由于贝壳基本上就是岩石，在这些贝壳变成石后，甚至可以看到彩虹色。

The researchers examined patterns fossilized within the bones of dinosaurs and some of their relatives.

研究人员检查了恐龙及其近亲骨骼石中。

But the critters were fossilized together in ways that suggest they sought out each others' company.

但这些动物以一起变成石方式表明它们互相寻找伴侣。

So it appears this sucker died and fossilized with a bellyful of blood—the only known specimen.

如此看来这家伙是带着一肚子血液死后变成石—这是唯一已知标本。

We know who the predator was, because it left a tooth in the whale's body, which eventually fossilized.

我们知道捕食者是谁，因为它在鲸鱼体内留下了一颗牙齿，最后变成了石。

Unlike dinosaur bones or ammonite shells the  squishier worms did not fossilize easily.

与恐龙骨头或菊石壳不同，较软蠕虫不容易形成石。

Things like warning displays, chemicals, or camouflage patterns don't fossilize.

诸如警告显、品或伪装之类东西不会变成石。

Although behaviors don't fossilize, the structures necessary for some behaviors do.

虽然行为不会僵，但某些行为所必需结构会。

We've got mudstones and very fine-grained sediments and how they fossilize, nodules and cementation.

我们有泥岩和非常细粒沉积物，以及它们如何石、结核和胶结作用。

Because, eggs, especially soft-shelled, leathery eggs like we'd expect to see in early amniotes, don't fossilize well.

因为，蛋，尤其是我们期望在早期羊膜动物中看到软壳革质蛋，不能很好地变成石。

Like all sharks, megalodon's skeleton was  made of cartilage, which doesn't fossilize.

像所有鲨鱼一样，巨齿鲨骨骼是由软骨制成，软骨不会石。

So yeah it's a nice thought experiment to think about how you might like to be fossilized yourself.

所以，是，这是一个很好思想实验，可以思考你自己可能喜欢如何石。

Or random damage to bones as they were fossilizing.

或者在骨骼变成石时对骨骼造成随机损坏。

Before any part of an animal could start being fossilized, it first needed to, you know, die.

在动物任何部分开始变成石之前， 它首先需要死亡。

Do you think Dinosaur Provincial Park would be a good place for bones to fossilize today?

你认为恐龙省立公园今天会成为骨骼石好地方吗？

The chances of any organism being fossilized are pretty low, which means some pieces of the story are likely missing.

任何物体被石可能性都非常低，这意味着故事某些部分可能缺失。

If this surface is in fact fossilized lava flow, researchers may discern the lake's age, thanks to radiometric dating.

如果这个表面实际上是石熔岩流，研究人员可以通过放射性测年法辨别出该湖年龄。

Experts say since most tumors form in soft tissue that does not easily fossilize, there is little evidence of cancer in the fossil record.

专家表由于大部分肿瘤形成在不会轻易石柔软组织里，所以在石中很少有癌症存在迹象。

The lacewing fossilized with pollen on its mouthparts shows how pollination began between ancient groups of insects and gymnosperm plants.

口器上带有花粉草蛉石表明，古代昆虫群体和裸子植物之间授粉是如何开始。