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What it is is just the natural accumulation of these fossils over a long period of time. So you' ve got lots of different ammonites living in the waters above, dying and ending up on the sea floor. We now know that an ammonite is a spiral shelled relative of a modern squid, the most common Jurassic fossil on the Lyme Regis coast. Can you paint me a picture of what the seas would have been like during that time? OK. Right. The sea may have been fairly warm. It was close to the equator at the time. I think, if you' ve just looked around you, you know, you got all these ammonites. It must have been swarming with ammonites. Sure. But at the age of 12, Mary Anning discovered something out of the ordinary, and her fortunes began to change. One day in 1811, Mary' s brother found a skull protruding from the cliff and it took her months to painstakingly uncover the rest of the bones. She discovered the first complete skeleton of a fish lizard, or Ichthyosaur. |
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zài lì shǐ de màn màn cháng hé zhōng, zhòng duō huà shí zì rán jī jù yú cǐ. zhǒng lèi fán duō de de yīng wǔ luó, shēng qián shēng huó zài zhè piàn shuǐ yù, sǐ hòu liú zài hǎi chuáng shàng chéng le huà shí. wǒ men liǎo jiě dào, yōng yǒu luó xuán zhuàng wài ké de yīng wǔ luó shì xiàn dài yóu yú de zǔ xiān. yīng wǔ luó shì lái mǔ lǐ jí sī hǎi àn zuì cháng jiàn de zhū luó jì huà shí. nǐ néng fǒu xiàng wǒ miáo shù yī xià nà shí hou de dà hǎi shì shén me yàng? hǎo de nà shí hou zhè piàn hǎi yáng hěn wēn nuǎn, shàng wèi piào lí chì dào. zài cǐ sì chù zhāng wàng, yīng wǔ luó suí chù kě jiàn, yīng wǔ luó chéng qún. shì zhè yàng. dàn mǎ lì ān níng 12 suì shí, tā fā xiàn le yí gè yǔ zhòng bù tóng de huà shí, tā de mìng yùn cóng cǐ gǎi biàn. nà shi 1811 nián de yì tiān, mǎ lì de gē ge zài xuán yá zhǎo dào yí gè tóu gǔ, jīng guò shù yuè xīn qín wā jué, mǎ lì wā chū le zhěng gè gǔ jià, tā fā xiàn le rén lèi shǐ shàng, dì yí gè wán zhěng de yú lóng gǔ jià gǔ pá xíng dòng wù. |