The shallow temperate seas support the greatest concentrations of fish on our planet.

这片温和的浅海是地球上鱼类最密集的地区。

It's also one of the most popular spots for experienced scuba divers.

它也是浅海潜水的最受欢迎的地点之一。

The creature's former habitat, a shallow seabed, is now on a mountaintop.

这种生物以前的栖息地是浅海海床，现在的栖息地则在山顶。

Specifically it was a shallow ocean basin at the bottom of a steep cliff.

具体来说。它是在一座陡峭悬崖脚下的浅海里。

Coral reefs are only found in shallow, tropical seas.

珊瑚礁只存在于热带地区的浅海中。

There's only bare sand and the warm shallow sea beyond.

这个荒凉沙漠离温暖的浅海。

The footage spanned shallow seafloors of 25 meters or so and areas nearly 4,000 meters deep.

视频拍摄了25米深左右的浅海海底，也有近4000米深的区域。

The abundance of food in the shallow seas attracts many other species of whale and dolphin, including humpbacks.

浅海区充足的食物吸引了很多其它种类的鲸和海豚，包括座头鲸。

Colonising new reefs is a challenge faced by fish across the South Pacific, but they have a simple solution.

移居到新的浅海礁区对南的鱼类来说是一个挑战，但它们有简单的解决方法。

The Great Plains are actually the former bed of shallow inland sea.

大原实际上是内陆浅海的前海床。

And that would have had a greater impact on the shallow oceans.

这会对浅海产生更大的影响。

These shallows around the equator are excellent nurseries.

赤道附近的浅海是个非常理想的托儿所。

But the emphasis in that  video was upon the shallow seas adjoining the great continental land masses.

但那段视频的重点是靠近大型大陆陆地的浅海区域。

And the shallow oceans were where the ammonites were living.

浅海是菊石生活的地方。

An asteroid six miles wide struck the Earth, causing major impacts to many ecosystems, including the shallow seas.

一颗六英里宽的小行星撞击地球，对包括浅海在内的许多生态系统造成重大影响。

With the grains come nutrients, which act as fertilizer and they transform the shallow sea into a rich fishing ground

风把带着养分的沙尘， 像肥料一样撒进大海， 把这片浅海变成了富饶的渔场。

The temperature of the water rarely rises above minus one degree Celsius, but the shallow seas of the Arctic are some of the earth's richest.

这里的水温很少上升到摄氏零下一度以上，但北极的浅海区却是地球上最富饶的海域之一。

The sea level drops, so it drops off of these shallow shelf areas and it's just habitat loss, and so we have a mass extinction event.

海面下降，浅海区域的水退去，导致栖息地丧失，从而引发了一次大灭绝事件。

Sea levels were high, and the continents were surrounded by vast, shallow seas, full of exotic creatures like rugose corals, crinoids, and jawless fish.

海面很高，各大洲周围都是广阔的浅海，里面充满了奇异的生物，如皱纹珊瑚、海百合和无颌鱼。

As a result, what are now the shallow seas between Asia and the Indonesian islands of Sumatra, Borneo, Java, and Bali became dry land.

结果，现在亚洲与印度尼西亚苏门答腊岛、婆罗洲、爪哇岛和巴厘岛之间的浅海变成了旱地。