科普知识学英语 某些恐龙可能是游泳健将.docVIP

A University of Alberta researcher has identified some of the strongest evidence ever found that dinosaurs could paddle long distances. Working together with an international research team, U of A graduate student Scott Persons examined unusual claw marks left on a river bottom in China that is known to have been a major travel-way for dinosaurs. ? Alongside easily identified fossilized footprints of many Cretaceous era animals including giant long neck dinosaurs researchers found a series of claw marks that Persons says indicates a coordinated, left-right, left-right progression. ? What we have are scratches left by the tips of a two-legged dinosaurs feet, said Persons. The dinosaurs claw marks show it was swimming along in this river and just its?tippy（不安定的）?toes were touching bottom. ? The claw marks cover a distance of 15 meters which the researchers say is evidence of a dinosaurs ability to swim with coordinated leg movements. The tracks were made by carnivorous?theropod（兽脚类的肉食恐龙）?dinosaur that is estimated to have stood roughly 1 meter at the hip. ? Fossilized rippling and evidence of mud cracks indicate that over 100 million years ago the river, in what is now Chinas Szechuan Province, went through dry and wet cycles. The river bed, which Persons describes as a dinosaur super-highway has yielded plenty of full foot prints of other theropods and gigantic four-legged?sauropods（蜥脚类动物）. ? With just claw scratches on the river bottom to go with, Persons says the exact identity of the paddling dinosaur cant be determined, but he suspects it could have been an early tyrannosaur or a Sinocalliopteryx. Both species of predators were known to have been in that area of China. 阿尔伯塔大学的一位研究人员已经确定了一些迄今发现的最有力的证据，恐龙可能桨长距离。一个国际研究小组一起工作的一名研究生斯科特人士，U审查不寻常的恐龙一直是一个主要的旅游方式，被称为中国的河流底部爪留下的痕迹。 ? 除了容易识别的脚印化石的许多白垩纪时代的动物，包括巨长脖子恐龙的研究员发现了一系列的爪痕的人说，表示协调，左，右，左，右的进展。 ? “我们有什么技巧两足恐龙的脚留下的划痕，”上述人士。“恐龙的爪痕显示，它在这条河里游泳，只是其毛尖（不安定的）脚趾触底。“ ? 的爪痕覆盖的距离为15米，这是研究人员说的是恐龙的游泳能力与协调的腿部动作的证据。轨道由肉食性的兽脚类（兽脚