Vertebrates are animals that have spines, or backbones.

脊椎动物有脊椎骨。

Each back bone, or vertebra, weighs more than 100 kilograms.

每根脊椎骨的重量都超过100公斤。

It was likely killed by a severe break of its backbone.

它可能是死于脊椎骨的严重断裂。

Teeth, gills, vertebrae, or dorsal fin?

牙齿、鳃、脊椎骨还是背鳍？

Snakes are also vertebrates, which means that they have a backbone.

蛇类也是脊椎动物，说明它们有脊椎骨。

Its backbone, neck, and ribs have walls just a few milometers thick.

它的脊椎骨，脖颈还有肋骨只有几厘米的厚度。

Meet T8, the most commonly fractured vertebra in the spine.

我们来看看脊柱 T8，最常见的脊椎骨折位置。

Joints, muscles and ligaments that are attached to the bones hold it all together.

附着于脊椎骨的关节、肌肉和韧带，把它包覆在一起的。

Harry, who was measuring out powdered spine of lionfish, ignored them.

利正在称出研成粉末的狮子鱼脊椎骨，没有理睬他们。

The find resulted in 13 backbone vertebrae, four ribs and a hip bone.

他们发现了13根脊椎骨，4根肋骨和1根髋骨。

Actually, snakes are almost ALL backbone!

事实上，蛇类几乎全身都是脊椎骨！

They glide along by the help of their backbone, their ribs, and their scales.

蛇在地上游, 靠的是脊椎骨、肋骨、鳞片的帮助。

But the oyster has no backbone; indeed it has no bones at all.

但是牡蛎没有脊椎骨, 其实, 牡蛎连一点骨头都没有。

We know this because shark vertebrae show rings of their growth, just like tree rings.

我们知道这一点，是根据鲨鱼的脊椎骨显示出它们生长的环，就像树木的年轮一样。

I'll get a crucible, and into it, and dissolve myself down to one small, compendious vertebra.

我要弄个坩埚来，跳进去，把自己熔化成一节小小的简洁的脊椎骨。

In between each bone in your spine, there rests a cushion of collagen with a mucoprotein gel filling.

在我们的每个脊椎骨之间，都有胶原蛋白垫层，其充满了粘蛋白凝胶。

He puts on his ceremonial garb: red face paint, earrings, and a necklace of shark's teeth and vertebrae.

把脸涂上红色，并戴上耳环，还有鲨鱼牙齿和脊椎骨做成的项链。

She plummeted three stories to the grass below, fracturing three vertebrae in her back, her sternum and several ribs.

她从三层楼的高处摔到下面的草地上，背部三块脊椎骨、胸骨和几根肋骨折断。

Their tail is held stiff by a series of interconnecting bony rods that sort of locked the vertebra in place.

它们的尾巴很硬实，一些列互相紧扣的骨棒让尾部的脊椎骨紧连在一起。

A snake's skeleton is mostly made up of its skull, the vertebrae (or bones of the spine) , and ribs.

蛇的骨架主要由头骨、脊椎骨，也就是脊柱和肋骨组成。