But insects and crustaceans build exoskeletons made from chains of modified sugars called chitin.

但是昆虫和甲壳类动的外骨骼是由被称为甲壳素的修饰糖链制成的。

Forget cockroaches. Forget Superman. Forget any other tough-as-nails creatures you've ever heard of.

忘掉蟑螂。忘掉超人。忘掉你听说过的所有顽强的甲壳类动。毫。

Baleen whales eat small creatures that include krill, fish or crustaceans called copepods.

须鲸以小型生为食，包磷虾、鱼类或被称为桡足动的甲壳类动。

Today this 1-centimeter crustacean will share the same fate as 40 million of his closest friends: a life sentence in the belly of the largest blue whale in the world.

今天，这只 1 厘米长的甲壳类动与它 4000 万的亲密朋友们遭受同样的命运：在世上最大的蓝鲸的肚子里囚禁终生。

Other than living on Earth, we don't have a lot in common with these arthropods, the group of animals that includes everything from spiders to insects to crustaceans like these guys.

除了都是生活在地球上，我们与这些节肢动没有太多相同点，节肢动包从蜘蛛到昆虫，再到像这些家伙一样的甲壳类动。

Conseil picked a couple bunches. As for the local fauna, it included thousands of crustaceans of every type: lobsters, hermit crabs, prawns, mysid shrimps, daddy longlegs, rock crabs, and a prodigious number of seashells, such as cowries, murex snails, and limpets.

至于动，那就是各种各样的甲壳类、龙虾、大盘蟹、长手蟹、苗虾、长脚虾、加拉蟹，以及数不清的大量蚌蛤、磁、、编笠。

Above the size of L rotifers, however, farmers switch phylum and feed their charges crustaceans called brine shrimps, the smallest of which clock in at 400 microns.

然而，L号轮虫再往上，农民们换了门，用一种被称为“盐水虾”的甲壳类动喂食，最小的盐水虾长度有400微米。

And when this was a level ocean floor, the shells of clams and crustaceans and things settled down over the millennia and formed a cemented layer, which is called a hard-pan layer.

远古时期这里是平坦的海底，蛤蜊和甲壳类动的壳经过几千年的沉淀，形成了一个胶结层，而这被称为硬盘层。

It has even sent factory ships to the other end of the earth to vacuum krill, tiny crustaceans eaten by penguins and whales from Antarctic waters.

它甚至工厂的船只送到了地球的另外一端，以便从南极洲寻找磷虾、小的甲壳类动，这些是企鹅和鲸鱼的食。

These are made of a naturally occurring polymer called chitin, which is a polymer you find in most insect and crustacean exoskeletons.

这些鳞片是由一种叫做甲壳素的天然聚合构成的，而在大多数昆虫和甲壳类动的外骨骼中都能找到这种甲壳素的聚合。

Lobster is synonymous with Maine, so integral to its brand that the state offers a licence plate depicting the crustacean.

龙虾是缅因州的代名词，该州与龙虾密不可分，以至于提供画有龙虾这种甲壳类动的车牌。

The renovation renders the shells more precious to their owners-and to other covetous crustaceans as well.

这种改造让寄居蟹更加珍惜自己的螺壳，而其它贪婪的甲壳类动也垂涎这样的螺壳。

In addition, the camouflage helps the leafy sea dragons prey on smaller ocean creatures, such as crustaceans.

除此之外，伪装有助于绿叶海龙捕食甲壳类等较小的海洋生。

Well, on a recent evening, my childhood dreams came true as collections manager of crustaceans Adam Wall took me right into the vaults of the Natural History Museum of LA.

前几天的一个晚上，我童年的梦想成真了——甲壳类动的收藏经理亚当·沃尔带我进入洛杉矶自然历史博馆的地下室。

They're the only crustacean that has adapted to live entirely on land.

它们是唯一适应完全在陆地上生活的甲壳类动。

Flamingos feed mainly on tiny crustaceans, which in turn feed on red algae.

火烈鸟主要以微小的甲壳类动为食，而甲壳类动又以红藻为食。

With almost no ice cover, sunlight penetrates the surface allowing plankton to grow which attracts feeder fish like capelin and crustaceans like krill, mackerel follow to feast on the smaller ocean life and attract tuna who eat the mackerel.

- 由于几乎没有冰盖，阳光穿透表面，允许浮游生生长，从而吸引像毛鳞鱼这样的饲养鱼和像磷虾、鲭鱼这样的甲壳类动来享用较小的海洋生并吸引吃鲭鱼的金枪鱼。

If Atopodentatus was doing something similar, that means that it was probably also a herbivore - not the tiny crustacean-eating carnivore it was originally interpreted to be, making it the oldest herbivorous marine reptile in the fossil record.

如果奇齿龙也做类似的事情，那就意味着它很可能也是植食性动——而不是最初认为的那种以小型甲壳类动为食的肉食性动，这使它成为化石记录中最古老的植食性海洋爬行动。

Other than both living on Earth, we don't have a lot in common with these arthropods, the group of animals that includes everything from spiders to insects to crustaceans like these guys.

除了都生活在地球上， 我们和这些节肢动没什么共同点，这个动群体包了从蜘蛛到昆虫再到像这样的甲壳类动的各种生。

But what you might not know is the role that an ordinary crustacean, the American horseshoe crab, played in its development and also in modern medicine as a whole.

但您可能不知道的是，普通的甲壳类动——美洲鲎，在其发展以及整个现代医学中所发挥的作用。