65 million years ago, the entire island of Madagascar went on a great journey.

六千五百万年前整个马达加斯加岛开始了了不起的旅程。

The island of Madagascar was drifting further out the sea. Plant lives suffered first.

马达加斯加岛继续向海里漂移。植物最先遭殃。

Its remains are only found on the Island Madagascar, but it has relatives in South America.

其骨骸只有在马达加斯加岛被发现过，不过它在南美洲有亲戚。

On the island of Madagascar, they made a pretty incredible discovery.

在马达加斯加岛们有了不可思议的发现。

On North America, Tyrannosaurus-Rex was that apex predator. But on the island of Madagascar, it was Majungasaurus.

在北美洲，霸王龙是顶级掠食者。不过在马达加斯加岛，则是玛君龙。

Great Britain of course, along with Honshu, Luzon, Mindanao, Java, Sumatra, and Madagascar.

当然还有大不列，以及本州岛、吕宋岛（菲律宾主要岛屿）、棉兰老岛（菲律宾东南第二大岛）、爪哇岛（位于印尼）、苏门答腊岛和马达加斯加岛。

The island of Madagascar has some other very small chameleon species.

马达加斯加岛还有其他一些非常小的变色龙物种。

Just a few thousand years ago, the island of Madagascar was inhabited by giants.

就在几千年前，马达加斯加岛还居住。

In the dark dense forests of Madagascar, danger came in many forms, but one in particular.

在马达加斯加岛阴暗浓密的森林里危险有多种形式，不过有一种尤为严重。

I first landed on the island of Madagascar two decades ago, on a mission to document its marine natural history.

二十年前， 我第一次登陆马达加斯加岛，是为了记录其海洋自然历史。

Ripped from the continent of Gondwanaland by the violent upheavals of the Earth tectonic plates, the island of Madagascar was born.

由于地球猛烈的板块运动，一块陆地被从冈瓦纳大陆上撕下，马达加斯加岛自此诞生。

The fossilized skull of this strange creature was discovered by chance in a block of sandstone taken from Madagascar to a New York lab.

这个奇怪生物的化石头颅是在马达加斯加岛一块岩石中被偶然发现的，然后被送往纽约一所实验室。

Police in Madagascar say villagers have killed more than 80 cattle thieves in separate attacks in the south of the island. Richard Hamilton reports.

马达加斯加岛警方称，在该岛南的几次来袭中，村民们杀死了80多名偷牛的盗贼。理查德·汉密尔顿报道。

On Madagascar, because all these animals were confined in such a small place, It was much more likely that somebody would happen across these babies.

而在马达加斯加岛，因为在这个小地方里有那么多动物，这些幼崽更可能被其它动物遇到。

Moreover, despite Madagascar's proximity to Africa (400km, or 250 miles, at the closest point) those settlers have long been suspected of having arrived from the Malay Archipelago-modern Indonesia-more than 6,000km away.

此外，尽管马达加斯加岛毗邻非洲大陆（最近距离400公里，合250英里），长久以来外界猜测岛上的居民是从马来群岛，即现在的印度尼西亚，这个6000多公里外的地方迁移来的。

Imagine being on an island the size of Madagascar in this scenario, with absolutely no escape from the clutches of the ocean's waves no matter how high on the land that you can get to!

想象一下，在这种情况下，你在一个马达加斯加岛那么大的岛上，无论你能到达多高的陆地，都绝对无法逃脱海浪的魔爪！

But in the late Cretaceous, when the Allosaurus had finally all died out, the Abelisaurus took over, and if you were in South America, or Africa, or India, or Madagascar, your greatest fear would be a Abelisaurus.

不过到了白垩纪后期，异特龙已经彻底消失，阿贝力龙就接任了，如果你那时在南美洲、非洲印度或马达加斯加岛，你最大的恐惧便是阿贝力龙了。

France's EEZ spans nearly 11.7 million square kilometers of ocean across the Bay of Biscay, the Indian Ocean, while almost completely surrounding Madagascar, huge blotches of the pacific ocean, and even a tiny little sliver here just south of Canada.

法国的专属经济区横跨比斯开湾、印度洋，面积近 1170 万平方公里，几乎完全包围了马达加斯加岛、太平洋的大片海域，甚至还有加拿大南的一小片海域。