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

温和的浅海是地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。

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

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。

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

个荒凉沙漠远离温暖的浅海。

One hundred million years later, the warm, shallow seas were packed with tiny plants and animals — essentially, hors d'oeuvres for a plethora of bigger creatures like trilobites, conodonts, brachiopods, and corals.

一千万年之后，温暖的浅海充满了微小的植物和动物——基本上是大量大型生物的开胃菜，如三叶虫，牙形虫，腕足类和珊瑚。

At the time of the impact, the impact site itself was under a shallow sea of a couple hundred feet deep and so very naturally, one of the immediate effects of the impact itself was to launch an enormous Tsunami.

在撞击的时，撞击地点本身就是在几百英尺深的浅海下面，所以很自然，撞击的一个直接效果就是引发极剧烈的海啸。

Because they live in warm, shallow waters and move so slowly, manatees may often have algae, barnacles, and other things grow and build up on their thick, wrinkled skin, and they can't get it off.

因为它们生活在温暖的浅海，移动缓慢，所以海藻、藤壶，或其他动植物可能会经常生长并堆积在它们厚而褶的皮肤上面，而它们却无法将其甩掉。

The sea level drops, so it drops off of these shallow shelf areas and it's just habitat loss, and so we have a mass extinction event.

海平面下降，浅海区域的水退去，导致栖息地丧失，从而引发了一次大灭绝事件。

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。

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。

Coral reefs are only found in shallow, tropical seas.

珊瑚礁只存在于热带地区的浅海中。

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。

The temperature of the water rarely rises above minus one degree Celsius, but the shallow seas of the Arctic are some of the earth's richest.

里的水温很少上升到摄氏零下一度以上，但北极的浅海区却是地上最富饶的海域之一。

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。

I fully agree with Mr. Godwin-Austen, that the present condition of the Malay Archipelago, with its numerous large islands separated by wide and shallow seas, probably represents the former state of Europe, while most of our formations were accumulating.

我完全意戈德温-奥斯汀先生的看法， 马来群岛的现状，众多的大岛被宽阔的浅海隔开，可能代表了欧洲以前的状态， 而我们的大部分编队都在积累。

We've gone over where coral reefs are usually formed – along the edges of shallow ocean banks in tropical or subtropical regions, and the fact that they are declining at an alarming rate.

我们已经研究了珊瑚礁通常形成的地方——热带或亚热带地区的浅海海岸边缘，以及它们正在以惊人的速度减少的事实。

Millions of years ago this area was a shallow  sea where, countless tiny creatures lived and died, their shells piled up over time hardening into  layers of limestone rock.

数百万年前，区域是一浅海，无数微小的生物生活和死亡，它们的壳堆积在一起，经过时间的推移逐渐硬化成一层层的石灰岩。

As the asteroid hits the shallow  ocean and the bedrock below the energy of billions of nuclear weapons is  released all at once as the asteroid vaporizes.

当颗小行星撞击浅海及其下方的地基时，其能量瞬间释放，相当于数十亿颗核武器时爆炸，因为小行星在撞击中被气化了。

This process of converting light and carbon-dioxide, and building plant matter is  the base of the shallow seas food-chain upon which all other forms are dependent.

个将光线和二氧化碳转化为植物物质的过程是浅海食物链的基础，其他所有形式的生命都依赖于它。