Pearls contain a mixture of protein and calcium carbonate secreted by certain types of molluscs.

珍珠是某些类型软体动物分泌碳酸钙同蛋白质起构成混合物。

Most crocodilians, he reminded people, preferred to dine on fish or molluscs rather than farmers.

他提醒人们，多数鳄鱼宁愿吃鱼或软体动物而不愿吃农夫。

In the Pantanal, there really is plenty for everyone, and it's all thanks to a mollusc.

在潘塔纳尔，食物真很充足这全都种软体动物功劳。

What does it mean to think What equipment is needed to think? Do molluscs have such equipment?

什么叫做思考？进行思考需要什么器官？软体动物有这种器官吗？

Of course, molluscs are vital links in the complex chain of life. - Hm.

当然 软体动物是复杂生物链中关键链接 - 嗯。

Was it me and my mollusc friends, with our amazing mantles and single foot?

是我和我软体动物朋友吗？ 我们有不可思议外套膜和单足？

There are more species of molluscs in the ocean than any other animal phylum.

海洋中软体动物种类远超其他动物门。

They were as two horns which the sluggish heath had put forth from its crown, like a mollusc, and had now again drawn in.

两个人好像是软体动物般懒怠荒原伸出来触角，现在又把它们缩了回去。

Most of the main groups of the animal kingdom—arthropods, brachiopods, coelenterates, echinoderms, molluscs and even chordates, the branch from which vertebrates went on to develop—are found in the fossil beds of the Cambrian.

人们在寒武纪群落里发现了动物王国主要动物集群，包括腕足、腔肠、棘皮、软体和脊索（脊椎动物进化分支）。

Several introductions of damaging insects have been attacked successfully by further introductions of critters that eat them—though this has not worked so well for voracious introduced molluscs called giant African land snails.

通过进步引入以它们为食小动物，成功地攻击了几种引入破坏性昆虫——尽管这被称为巨型非洲陆生蜗牛贪婪引入软体动物来说效果不佳。

Their journey from small, passive molluscs to sleek, voracious predators took hundreds of millions of years of trial and error -- from developing shells to survive, to finally learning to thrive without them.

它们从小型、被动软体动物到光滑、贪婪捕食者旅程经历了数亿年反复试验——从开发贝壳以生存，到最终会在没有它们情况下茁壮成长。

That encourages the growth of planktonic algae, and thus of everything that feeds on such plankton, or feeds on what feeds on them, including jellyfish, and also various molluscs and crustacea that loggerheads enjoy as an appetiser.

这有利于浮游藻类生长，因此也有利于以这些浮游生物为食动物，或以这些动物为食动物生长，包括水母，还有各种各样软体动物和甲壳动物，这些都是红海龟最爱。

But by the late Cambrian, one mollusc known as Plectronoceras had acquired a couple of adaptations that marked the beginning of a brand new form of transportation -- and a whole new kind of mollusk.

但是到了寒武纪晚期，种被称为 Plectronoceras 软体动物已经获得了些适应性，这标志着种全新运输方式开始——以及种全新软体动物。

In early fish-like vertebrates more than 500 million years ago; in a common ancestor of arthropods, such as insects, spiders and crustaceans, at around the same time; and then in the cephalopod molluscs around 300 million years ago.

在 5 亿多年前早期类鱼脊椎动物中；节肢动物共同祖先，例如昆虫、蜘蛛和甲壳类动物，约同时出现；然后是头足类软体动物约 3 亿年前。

His undoing began when a committee of the Royal Society-a committee of which he happened to be chairman decided to award him its highest honor, the Royal Medal, for a paper he had written on an extinct mollusc called the belemnite.

英国皇家会个委员会——欧文恰好是该委员会主席决定授予他最高荣誉：英国皇家勋章，表彰他写篇关于种名叫箭石、已经绝种软体动物论文。