Each plant is a sort of island that has its own special fauna population.

每棵植都像一个小岛，他们有自己特有群落。

Isolated communities may evolve from millions of years in relative peace.

与世隔绝群落可能在数百万年内演化出了相对稳定生态。

Inostrancevia is part of a group of animals called protomammals that combined reptile-like and mammal-like features.

狼蜥兽是被称为原始哺乳群中一员，这种集爬行和哺乳特征于一身。

And we're beginning to see that, yes, it looks more like a mammal- or bird-type colony.”

其更像是哺乳或鸟那种群落。”

The fall of the Ediacaran fauna was followed by the creative outburst of the Cambrian period.

埃迪亚拉群没落之后是寒武纪创造性爆发。

Historically, it's a temporary change, and once El Nino stops, it just goes back to the cold water fauna.

“从历史上来看，这是短暂变化，一旦厄尔尼诺停止，这些鱼类就回归到冷水区群。

So it is that grasslands provide a stage for the greatest gatherings of wildlife on planet earth.

所以草原为地球上最壮观野生群提供了舞台。

Boat tours provide opportunities to visit the region's incredible flora and fauna, in addition to exotic birds and other animals.

乘船游览不仅提供了观赏异域鸟类和其他，能让我们领略该地区令人惊叹植与群落。

Nor is it agreed that the Ediacaran organisms are in any way ancestral to anything alive today (except possibly some jellyfish).

关于埃迪亚拉群在哪个方面是不是今天活着哪种（可能除了水母以外）祖先问题，意见也很不统一。

Today, Yellowstone is home to the planet’s largest remaining wild herd.

今天，黄石公园是地球上现存最大野生群家园。

To  their surprise, they discovered living fauna thriving in the deepest place on Earth.

令他们惊讶是，他们发现了在地球最深处繁衍生息活群。

By about 10000 B.C.E., all those giant creatures, the Megafauna of North America were gone.

到大约公元前 10000 年，所有那些巨大生，北美巨型群都消失了。

As the theory predicts, the rate of immigration declines as the island fauna matures.

正如该理论所预测那样，随着岛上群成熟，移民率下降。

Animals lived in herds for many other reasons.

出于许多其他原因， 群居。

Stealing an entire herd of animals was pretty uncommon because it was so obvious.

偷窃整个群并不常见，因为这太显眼了。

[Ryan] It's not food; it's like flora and fauna.

- [Ryan] 这不是食； 这就像植群和群。

Several groups of Ediacaran animals went extinct completely, and others struggled to adapt.

一些埃迪拉纪群完全灭绝了，其他一些则努力适应。

The expression " flora and fauna" refers to plants and animals.

“植群和群”一词是指植和。

Collections also suggest that the Nama fauna is considerably less complex than the White Sea's.

收藏品表明，纳马群远没有白海复杂。

In the last episode, we talked about group of animals, trees, and even ships.

在上一集里，我们讨论了群、树木群，甚至船只群。