The name monotreme means one hole referring to the single orifice they use for reproduction, excretion, and egg-laying.

目这个词指一个，指的是一个用于生育、排泄，下蛋的。

And these ancient egg-layers probably reproduced a lot like today's monotremes do.

这些古老的卵层可能像今天的一样繁殖。

As a monotreme, she's part of the most ancient lineage of mammals alive today.

作为动物，她是当今最古老的哺乳动物谱系的一部分。

The three modern mammal groups -- the placentals, marsupials and monotremes -- all made it.

三个现代哺乳动物群——盘 动物、有袋动物动物——都成功了。

There were once hundreds of monotreme species, but there are only five left: four species of echidnas and the duck-billed platypus.

曾经有好几百种目哺乳动物，现在仅存5种：4种针鼹兽。

And we think monotremes have been doing it more or less that way this whole time.

我们认为动物一直以来或多或少都是这样做的。

Well, there's the platypus, an egg-laying monotreme with venomous spurs.

嗯，有兽，一种产卵的动物，有毒刺。

Another idea is that therians followed a path similar to the monotremes, where eggs were retained in the mother's body for longer and longer periods of time.

另一个想法是， therians 遵循似于动物的路径，卵子在母亲体内的保留时间越来越长。

For crown group mammals, our most recent common ancestor is the one shared by placentals like us, marsupials like the kangaroo, and the monotremes like the platypus.

对于冠群哺乳动物，我们最近的共同祖先是像我们这样的盘动物、袋鼠这样的有袋动物兽这样的动物共有的祖先。

These little creatures didn't belong to any of the three main mammal groups on the planet today—which are the placental mammals (like us), monotremes (like the platypus) and marsupials (like koalas and kangaroos).

这些小动物不属于当今地球上三个主要哺乳动物群中的任何一个——盘哺乳动物（如我们）、动物（如兽）有袋动物（如考拉袋鼠）。

These subtle creatures didn't belong to any of the three main mammal groups on the planet today-which are the placental mammals (like us), monotremes (like the platypus) and marsupials (like koalas and kangaroos).

这些小动物不属于今天地球上的三个主要哺乳动物群体——盘哺乳动物(像我们)、目哺乳动物(像兽)有袋哺乳动物(像考拉袋鼠)。

The playtpus belongs to an unusual group called monotremes that diverged from the branch of the mammal family tree that leads to marsupials -- and later placentals -- around 186 million years ago.

playtpus 属于一个不寻常的群，称为动物，大约在 1.86 亿年前，它从导致有袋动物后来的盘动物的哺乳动物家族树的分支中分离出来。

Reptiles, amphibians, most birds, and monotremes like the platypus have a cloaca, a multipurpose swiss army knife of holes, linking the urinary, waste, and reproductive systems… I guess you could say: one ring to rule them all.

爬行动物、两栖动物、大多数鸟像兽这样的动物都有泄殖腔，这是一把多用途的瑞士军刀，连接着泌尿系统、废物系统生殖系统… … 我想你可以说：一环统领它们。