It's that chalkiness, the flintiness that you get, that's imparted in the wine.

这是酒赋予你的白垩色和火石色。

The White Cliffs of Dover have caves and tunnels originally used by smugglers.

多佛市（英国港口）的白垩崖有很多岩洞和隧洞，原为走私者所用。

The early Cretaceous fossils that we find in Maryland are preserved in sandstones and clay-stones.

我们在马里兰发现的白垩早化石保存在砂岩和粘土岩中。

Take limestone, a chalky rock rich in minerals called carbonates.

以石灰岩为例，这是一种富含碳酸盐矿物的白垩质岩石。

To find such living fossils from as far back as the Cretaceous is extraordinary.

能发现白垩的活化石是不起的。

Different texture from normal. They've kind of like got a bit more chalky.

口感与正常的东西不。它们吃起来更有白垩土的味道。

It lived in coastal wetlands more than 66 million years ago during Earth's Cretaceous Period.

它生活在6600多万年前地球白垩的沿海湿地中。

Being confined on the island of Madagascar in the late Cretaceous was pretty tough.

在白垩的末，被限制在马达加斯加岛上很艰难。

They say that the causeway formed 50 to 60 million years ago when molten rock was forced up through fissures in chalk beds, forming a plateau of lava.

他们认为堤道形成于5至6千万年前，是由白垩层的岩石裂缝中喷涌而出的岩浆形成的熔岩高原。

There is no reason to believe that the dinosaurs were dying out gradually during the last three million years of the Cretaceous, Sheehan reported.

“没有理由认为。在白垩的最后300万年里恐龙在渐渐消失。”希恩在报告里说。

But for such a celebrated killer, able to take on the toughest creatures of the Cretaceous, some things just don't add up. It's slow.

但对这个让人闻风丧胆能拿下白垩最坚韧的生物的杀戮者而言，有一点很不相称。它行动缓慢。

It lived in a dry area about 80 million years ago during the Cretaceous Period, near the end of the age of dinosaurs.

它生活在大约8000万年前的白垩，也就是恐龙代末的一个干燥地区。

They have thrived since the age of dinosaurs, with the oldest-known ant fossil dating back about 100 million years to the Cretaceous Period.

自恐龙代以来，它们就一直繁衍生息，已知最古老的蚂蚁化石可以追溯到大约 1 亿年前的白垩。

Paleontologists believe it belongs to a toothless theropod dinosaur, or oviraptorosaur, dating back 72 to 66 million years, within the Cretaceous Period.

古生物学家认为它属于一种无牙兽脚类恐龙，或称卵龙，可以追溯到7200万至6600万年的白垩。

Some duckbills were 50-feet long, but Ajnabia was perhaps the smallest of these Cretaceous vegetarians, about the size of a pony.

有些鸭嘴兽有50英尺长，但异域龙可能是白垩最小的素食者，只有小马那么大。

The best-documented such impact took place 65 million years ago at the end of the Cretaceous period of geological history.

记载最完整的这种灾难曾发生在6500万年前，在地质历史阶段的白垩末。

I think these dinosaurs went extinct because they simply could not deal with the global environmental changes that were occurring at the end of the Cretaceous period.

我想这些恐龙的灭绝是因为它们无法适应在白垩末出现的全球性的环境变化。

When finished they found that they had more than tripled the global total of dinosaur fossils from the late Cretaceous.

当工作结束的候，他们发现自己已经——为这颗行星——把白垩末的恐龙化石增加两倍多。

That is fair enough. Such landscapes were common during the beasts' heydays, the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.

这很合理，因为这样的景观在侏罗和白垩的野兽鼎盛很常见。

Different feathers have different patterns of colour, suggesting that Cretaceous dinosaurs-flying or otherwise-used their feathers for display.

不的羽毛有不的颜色样式，这表明白垩的会飞恐龙和陆地恐龙都利用羽毛来炫示自己。