Vertebrates are animals with backbones and bones inside their bodies. The bones help to support their bodies.

脊椎动物是身体里边有脊椎和骨头的动物。这些骨头来帮助支撑他们的身体。

Things with backbones and skulls can support huge eyes, but jumping spiders are not huge.

有脊椎和头骨的东西可以支撑巨大的眼睛，但跳蛛并不大。

By human standards, a few vertebrate species have incredible longevity.

照人类的标准，有些脊椎动物的寿命长得令人难以置信。

With an efficient new way to take in nearly limitless amounts of oxygen from air, animals were eventually able to get bigger and more diverse over the ages, and now all of us lung-having vertebrates share that common ancestor.

有了种从空气中吸收几乎无量氧气的有效新方法，随着时间的推移，动物最终能够变得更大、更多样化，现在我们所有有肺的脊椎动物有个共同的祖先。

They say the loss of animal life is worst in South and Central America. These regions saw an 89 per cent loss in the population of vertebrates in the past four decades.

他们表示美洲南部和中部地区动物死亡情况最为严重。在过去40年中，有89%的脊椎动物在这些区域消失了。

The land vertebrates – animals that have a backbone or spine – showed up some 375 million years ago.

大约3。75亿年前，陆地脊椎动物，也就是有脊骨或脊椎的动物，开始出现。

Whatcheeria was an early tetrapod, as the first land animals with backbones were known.

瓦切螈是种早期的四足动物，作为第批有脊椎的陆地动物而为人所知。

The researchers say the acanthothoracid was one of the earliest jawed vertebrates with teeth ever to live.

研究人员表示，acanthothoracid是有史以来最早的有牙齿的颚脊椎动物之。

The team counted up the vertebrate animals (those with backbones) that scientists have caught eating poop. The tally totaled more than 150 poop-consuming species. Feces eaters ranged from adult black bears to baby koalas.

研究团队统计了科学家们发现的吃粪便的有脊椎动物（有脊柱的动物）。统计的总数超过150种食粪物种。食粪者从成年黑熊到考拉幼崽不等。

I just know that he really pushes the boundaries of what is actually structurally possible, and all of his works really resemble bones and living things and a lot of spines.

我只是知道他真的突破了结构可能性的界，他的所有作品真的很像骨头和生物， 有很多脊椎的样子。

That's your blind spot, and every animal with a backbone has a blind spot in each eye because of how the eye is built.

那是你的盲点，每个有脊椎的动物每只眼睛有个盲点，这是因为眼睛的构造方式。

All animals with backbones and four legs came from the same common ancestor, who lived about 400 million years ago.

所有有脊椎和四条腿的动物来自大约 4 亿年前的同个祖先。

They have enormous eyes as well, the largest eyes of any vertebrate, any backboned animal ever.

它们的眼睛也极大，是所有脊椎动物，即所有有脊椎的动物中最大的。