The shallow temperate seas support the greatest concentrations of fish on our planet.

这片温和的浅海是地球上鱼类最密集的地区。

It's also one of the most popular spots for experienced scuba divers.

它也是浅海潜水的最受欢迎的地点之一。

At that time, most creatures swam or crawled in shallow seas.

那时，大多数生物在浅海中游泳或爬行。

The creature's former habitat, a shallow seabed, is now on a mountaintop.

这种生物以前的栖息地是浅海海床，现在的栖息地则在山顶。

Specifically it was a shallow ocean basin at the bottom of a steep cliff.

具体来说。它是在一座陡峭悬崖脚下的浅海里。

And yet, this revelation has created more questions than it has answered.

多的问题，多数浅海生物可能因冰层锁住多海水。

Coral reefs are only found in shallow, tropical seas.

珊瑚礁只存在于热带地区的浅海中。

There's only bare sand and the warm shallow sea beyond.

这个荒凉沙漠远离温暖的浅海。

A shallow sea had begun to split the continent that would become the Americas.

如今的美洲大陆在当时被一片浅海一分为二。

With the retreating ice, rough weather and ferocious currents stir up these shallow seas.

随着冰雪的消退，暴烈的天气和汹涌的洋流把这片浅海搅得天翻地覆。

The footage spanned shallow seafloors of 25 meters or so and areas nearly 4,000 meters deep.

视频拍摄了25米深左右的浅海海底，也有近4000米深的区域。

It’s unclear why the whales entered the shallow waters in the first place and apparently become disoriented.

尚不清楚为何这群鲸鱼会来到浅海中，它们看来好像是迷航了。

The abundance of food in the shallow seas attracts many other species of whale and dolphin, including humpbacks.

浅海区充足的食物吸引了很多其它种类的鲸和海豚，包括座头鲸。

Life is confined to the oceans at this point, and most of that is in the shallow seas.

当时生命仍然局限于海洋，主要分布在浅海区域。

Colonising new reefs is a challenge faced by fish across the South Pacific, but they have a simple solution.

移居到新的浅海礁区对南太平洋的鱼类来说是一个挑战，但它们有简单的解决方法。

Some resemble creatures familiar from shallower waters, others defy classification.

有一些貌似浅海生物，另一些则长相怪异。

In February, that takes them to the surface waters far from the coast of Venezuela.

二月，鲸鲨从遥远的委内瑞拉海岸来到这片浅海。

While today they are swallowed by shallow seas, this is only the result of a geologically recent rise in sea levels.

虽然如今它们被浅海所淹没，但这只是地质上最近海平面上升的结果。

The Great Plains are actually the former bed of shallow inland sea.

大平原实际上是内陆浅海的前海床。

Its strong tides, which sweep nutrients to its shallow seabed, are a boon for fishermen.

它强劲的潮汐将营养物质带到浅海海底，这对渔民来说是个大好消息。