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

这个荒凉沙漠远离温暖。

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

这片温和是地球上鱼类最密集地区。

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

它也是潜水最受欢迎地点之。

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

那时，大多数生物中游泳或爬行。

Coral reefs are only found in shallow, tropical seas.

珊瑚礁只存带地区中。

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

如今美洲大陆当时被片分为二。

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

具体来说。它是座陡峭悬崖脚下里。

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

更多问题，多数生物可能因冰层锁住更多水。

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

这种生物以前栖息地是床，现栖息地则山顶。

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中，它们看来好像是迷航了。

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

随着冰雪消退，暴烈天气和汹涌洋流把这片搅得天翻地覆。

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

视频拍摄了25米深左右底，也有近4000米深区域。

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

区充足食物吸引了很多其它种类鲸和豚，包括座头鲸。

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

移居到新礁区对南太平洋鱼类来说是个挑战，但它们有简单解决方法。

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

大平原实际上是内陆前床。

And the shallow oceans were where the ammonites were living.

是菊石生活地方。

And that would have had a greater impact on the shallow oceans.

这会对产生更大影响。

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

虽然如今它们被所淹没，但这只是地质上最近平面上升结果。

But the emphasis in that  video was upon the shallow seas adjoining the great continental land masses.

但该视频重点是毗邻大陆。

Originally, they’d been laid down as horizontal beds, mostly in rivers or shallow seas.

最初，它们被铺设成水平 床，主要河流或中。