The area is famous for its fossils from giant ichthyosaurs.

该地区以巨型鱼龙化石而闻名。

And here's another specimen of temnodontosaurus that is proof positive that it really was a hunter.

这另外一个泰曼鱼龙标本，它可以证明泰曼鱼龙确实一个猎手。

In London and Oxford patrons are a more mixed bunch.

在伦敦和牛津顾客们更鱼龙混杂。

It is from a class of ancient marine creatures called ichthyosaurs, which resembled dolphins.

属于一种名为鱼龙的古代物，类似豚。

Ichthyosaurs and other contemporary viviparous species, by contrast, gave birth to multiple offspring.

对比之下，鱼龙和其它现代胎物种可以育多个后代。

The name ichthyosaur means fish lizard.

鱼龙这个名字的鱼蜥蜴。

This is Temnodontosaurus, one of the biggest of the sea dragons so far discovered.

这泰曼鱼龙，目前为止发现的最大的龙之一。

She had found the skeleton of a prehistoric reptile — the ichthyosaur.

她发现了一种史前爬行动物——鱼龙的骨架。

So, could we resurrect one starting from their protein sequences?

那么，我们能从它们的蛋白质序列入手并复活一只鱼龙吗？

A good hostess knows the best parties have a mix of people.

一个优秀的女主人应该知道最好的派对总鱼龙混杂。

Motani was careful to say they're not sure exactly WHY the ichthyosaur perished.

Motani 谨慎表示他们不确定鱼龙究竟为何死亡。

It turns out that the skin, is still there, with cells and cellular organelles.

“结果发现，有细胞和细胞器的鱼龙皮肤仍在。

" Yeah, maybe in life ichthyosaurs would have been cute—at least the smaller ones."

“的，或许鱼龙在现实中会很可爱——至少体型更小。”

At sea, though, the most abundant reptiles were the ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs.

但在里，最繁盛的爬行动物要属鱼龙和蛇颈龙了。

" Maybe in life ichthyosaurs would have been cute-at least the smaller ones."

“也许在活中，鱼龙会很可爱——至少体型较小的如此。”

Perhaps, he says, the ichthyosaur snapped at the sea lizard—but the lizard fought back.

他说，可能鱼龙突然咬住了蜥蜴，但蜥蜴反击了。

So in my hand here, I'm actually holding one of the isolated teeth from this ichthyosaur.

在我手里拿着的，其实鱼龙的一颗牙齿。

Hundreds of millions of years ago, reptilian predators called ichthyosaurs swam the seas.

亿万年前，名为“鱼龙”的爬行动物捕食者在中游动。

Here, they have one of the most impressive and varied collections of ichthyosaurs in the world.

在这里，他们拥有世界上最令人印象深刻、种类最丰富的鱼龙收藏。

Long before dolphins swam the seas, their near look-alike ichthyosaurs inhabited the earth's oceans.

远远早于豚在中畅游之前，外形与其极为相似的鱼龙就已经栖息在地球的中了。