It's not like singing or other behaviors can be fossilized!

唱歌或者其他行为很难有化石记录！

And since the seashell stuff is basically rock, the iridescence can even be seen after these shells fossilized.

由于贝壳基本上就是岩石，在贝壳变成化石后，甚至可以看到彩虹色。

The researchers examined patterns fossilized within the bones of dinosaurs and some of their relatives.

研究人员检查了恐龙及其近亲骨骼化石中的图案。

But the critters were fossilized together in ways that suggest they sought out each others' company.

动物以一起变成化石的方式表明它们互相寻找伴侣。

So it appears this sucker died and fossilized with a bellyful of blood—the only known specimen.

如此看来家伙是带着一肚子的血液死后变成化石的—是唯一已知的标本。

We know who the predator was, because it left a tooth in the whale's body, which eventually fossilized.

我们知道捕食者是谁，因为它在鲸鱼体内留下了一颗牙齿，最后变成了化石。

Unlike dinosaur bones or ammonite shells the  squishier worms did not fossilize easily.

与恐龙骨头或菊石壳不同，较软的蠕虫不容易形成化石。

Things like warning displays, chemicals, or camouflage patterns don't fossilize.

诸如警告显示、化学品或伪装图案之类的东西不会变成化石。

Although behaviors don't fossilize, the structures necessary for some behaviors do.

虽然行为不会僵化，某行为所必需的结构会。

We've got mudstones and very fine-grained sediments and how they fossilize, nodules and cementation.

我们有泥岩和非常细粒的沉积物，以及它们如何化石化、结核和胶结作用。

Because, eggs, especially soft-shelled, leathery eggs like we'd expect to see in early amniotes, don't fossilize well.

因为，蛋，尤其是我们期望在早期羊膜动物中看到的软壳革质蛋，不能很好地变成化石。

Like all sharks, megalodon's skeleton was  made of cartilage, which doesn't fossilize.

像所有鲨鱼一样，巨齿鲨的骨骼是由软骨制成的，软骨不会化石。

So yeah it's a nice thought experiment to think about how you might like to be fossilized yourself.

所以，是的，是一个很好的思想实验，可以思考你自己可能喜欢如何化石。

Or random damage to bones as they were fossilizing.

或者在骨骼变成化石时对骨骼造成随机损坏。

Before any part of an animal could start being fossilized, it first needed to, you know, die.

在动物的任何部分开始变成化石之前， 它首先需要死亡。

Do you think Dinosaur Provincial Park would be a good place for bones to fossilize today?

你认为恐龙省立公园今天会成为骨骼化石的好地方吗？

The chances of any organism being fossilized are pretty low, which means some pieces of the story are likely missing.

任何物体被化石的可能性都非常低，意味着故事的某部分可能缺失。

If this surface is in fact fossilized lava flow, researchers may discern the lake's age, thanks to radiometric dating.

如果个表面实际上是化石熔岩流，研究人员可以通过放射性测年法辨别出该湖的年龄。

Experts say since most tumors form in soft tissue that does not easily fossilize, there is little evidence of cancer in the fossil record.

专家表示由于部分肿瘤形成在不会轻易石化的柔软组织里，所以在化石中很少有癌症存在的迹象。

The lacewing fossilized with pollen on its mouthparts shows how pollination began between ancient groups of insects and gymnosperm plants.

口器上带有花粉的草蛉化石表明，古代昆虫群体和裸子植物之间的授粉是如何开始的。