The ichthyosaur died soon after swallowing it.

龙吞下它后不久就死了。

And here's another specimen of temnodontosaurus that is proof positive that it really was a hunter.

这是另外一个泰曼龙标本，它可以证明泰曼龙确实是一个猎手。

In London and Oxford patrons are a more mixed bunch.

在伦敦和牛津顾客们更是龙混杂。

Motani was careful to say they're not sure exactly WHY the ichthyosaur perished.

Motani 谨慎表示他们不确定龙究竟为何死亡。

It is from a class of ancient marine creatures called ichthyosaurs, which resembled dolphins.

属于一种名为龙的古代洋生物，类似豚。

Ichthyosaurs and other contemporary viviparous species, by contrast, gave birth to multiple offspring.

对比之下，龙和其它现代胎生物种可以生育多个后代。

This is Temnodontosaurus, one of the biggest of the sea dragons so far discovered.

这是泰曼龙，目前为止发现的最大的龙之一。

She had found the skeleton of a prehistoric reptile — the ichthyosaur.

她发现了一种史前爬行动物——龙的骨架。

A good hostess knows the best parties have a mix of people.

一个优秀的女主人应该知道最好的派对总是龙混杂。

It turns out that the skin, is still there, with cells and cellular organelles.

“结果发现，有细胞和细胞器的龙皮肤仍在。

The researchers learned that they belonged to embryos and newborns, Pyenson said.

研究人员意识到，这些微小的骨骼属于胚胎和新生的龙，皮恩森说。

Our Rutland ichthyosaur lived during the early Jurassic, around about 180 million years ago.

我们的拉特兰龙 生活在侏罗纪早期，大概一亿八千万年前。

Perhaps, he says, the ichthyosaur snapped at the sea lizard—but the lizard fought back.

他说，可能龙突然咬住了蜥蜴，但蜥蜴反击了。

At sea, though, the most abundant reptiles were the ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs.

但是在里，最繁盛的爬行动物要属龙和蛇颈龙了。

The name ichthyosaur means fish lizard.

龙这个名字的意思是蜥蜴。

Here, they have one of the most impressive and varied collections of ichthyosaurs in the world.

在这里，他们拥有世界上最令人印象深刻、种类最丰富的龙收藏。

Long before dolphins swam the seas, their near look-alike ichthyosaurs inhabited the earth's oceans.

远远早于豚在中畅游之前，外形与其极为相似的龙就已经栖息在地球的洋中了。

Few novelists have so successfully managed such vast and varied casts.

少有几个小说家像狄更斯这样，笔下的人物龙混杂，截然迥异，处理起来却依旧得心应手。

So the ichthyosaur fought to subdue its prey, damaging its neck in the process.

因此，龙奋力制服自已的猎物，在这个过程中损伤了脖子。

They identified fossils from at least 37 ichthyosaurs from the area, dating back about 230 million years.

他们在该地区发现了至少37只龙的化石，可以追溯到大约2。3亿年前。