The sea lamprey is an ancient jawless fish.

七鳃鳗是一种没有颚古老鱼类。

In Lake Huron behind us, there are anywhere from 80 to 150,000 parasitic sea lampreys swimming around right now.

在我们身后休伦湖，有8015只寄生海七鳃鳗正在游弋。

Spain and Portugal, you could find sea lamprey on a menu as the high dollar market price item.

在西班牙和葡萄牙，你可以在菜单上找七鳃鳗以很高市场价格出售。

Now interestingly, sea lamprey are considered a delicacy in other parts of the world.

有趣是，七鳃鳗在世界其他地方被认为是美味佳肴。

The sea lamprey actually swam or hitched a ride into the Great Lakes through the canal system.

七鳃鳗实际上是通过运河系统游泳或搭便车进入五大湖。

' and, 'Who died of a surfeit of lampreys?

’还有，‘谁死于过多七鳃鳗？

Sea lamprey can tell the difference between warm and cold blooded organisms.

七鳃鳗能分辨出冷血和温血生物。

So, McCoy and her colleagues concluded that Tullimonstrum was probably an ancient relative of lampreys.

因此，McCoy 和她同事得出结论，Tullimonstrum 可能是七鳃鳗。

Probably the sea lamprey is one of if not the most devastating species to have invaded the Great Lakes.

七鳃鳗可能是入侵五大湖最具破坏性物种之一。

People in the Great Lakes region simply didn't have the palate for sea lamprey.

五大湖地区人们根本不喜欢七鳃鳗。

Most sea lamprey would swim very quickly away if they came near a human.

如果接近人类，大多数七鳃鳗会游得很快。

We are warm-blooded and the fish that sea lamprey feed on are cold blooded.

我们是温血，海鳗吃鱼是冷血。

Several of these classes are specific types of fish, for example: jawless fish, like lampreys and hagfish, and cartilaginous fish, like sharks and rays.

这些纲类一些便是鱼类，比如：无颚纲鱼形动物，像七鳃鳗、盲鳗和软骨纲鱼，像鲨鱼和魔鬼鱼。

And other fossils of vertebrates found from the same period, like fossils of lampreys, didn't have those white lines at all.

同一时期发现其他脊椎动物化石，如七鳃鳗化石， 根本没有那些白线。

In the midst of the watery mass, brightly lit by our electric beams, there snaked past those one-meter lampreys that are common to nearly every clime.

这海水和这海风给他带来了纵然不是过多悔恨，也一定是过多回忆。

Like modern lampreys and hagfish, conodonts were jawless fish, and they were one of the earliest and most successful groups of vertebrates.

像现代七鳃鳗和盲鳗一样， 牙形刺是无颌鱼，它们是最早和最成功脊椎动物群之一。

All of these traits are shared by Tully monsters and one other known animal: lampreys – long fish with toothy, jawless mouths.

所有这些特征都为塔利怪兽和另一种已知动物所共有：七鳃鳗——一种长着长着牙齿、没有下巴嘴巴鱼。

The sea lamprey are called the vampire of the Great Lakes because they attach and drink the blood of our native fish species here.

七鳃鳗被称为五大湖吸血鬼，因为它们附着在五大湖上，吸食五大湖本地鱼类血液。

After analyzing more than 1,200 fossils of the Tully Monster they determined that the creature was a vertebrate, probably an ancestor of Jawless fish like lampreys.

在分析了 1,200 多块塔利怪兽化石后， 他们确定该生物是一种脊椎动物，可能是七鳃鳗等无颌鱼祖先。

So many people ask, " Will a sea lamprey attack me while I'm out swimming in the Great lakes or in one of the streams" ?

很多人问，" 当我在五大湖或溪流中游泳时，会不会有七鳃鳗攻击我？"