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This is just another piece in a much bigger puzzle? Yes, but it' s a big piece. So if this fossil isn' t a missing link, what makes it so important? Really, its completeness. Usually the sorts of material we have to deal with are bits and pieces, so like a jaw bone like this or a piece of leg bone like this. And often it' s very difficult to know which jaw goes with which leg bone. Right. What we have here is something that' s absolutely complete, and not only can we see that all the various bits are there. But we can then start to interpret the more fragmentary specimens that we have. You' ve got a puzzle with all the pieces already. Exactly. On top of that, in this case we also have an impression of the fur. Wow, yeah, look at that. And in this area, in the stomach and gut area, we have the remains of its last meal. So there are small leaf fragments and a fruit, piece of a fruit, and from that we know it was eating a mixture of leaves and fruit. So this is really like a snapshot in time. You can see its fur, what it had for breakfast, what it had for dinner. Not sure we can separate breakfast from dinner but. Yeah, it be a cornflake in there. |
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nà me zhè shì dà pīn tú zhōng de yī xiǎo kuài ma? duì, bù guò tā kě bù xiǎo. rú guǒ zhè kuài huà shí bú shì mí shī de yī huán tā wèi hé rú cǐ zhòng yào? yīn wèi tā de wán zhěng xìng, wǒ men yì bān fā xiàn de líng zhǎng lèi huà shí dōu shì xiǎo suì piàn, xiàng zhè yàng de hé gǔ, huò zhè yàng de yī xiǎo kuài tuǐ gǔ, tóng shí hěn nán què dìng. zhèi xiē suì gǔ shì fǒu shǔ yú tóng yí gè tǐ shì de, dàn wǒ men zhè gè biāo běn fēi cháng wán zhěng. quán shēn gè bù fèn gǔ gé dōu wán hǎo, hái néng yǐ tā wèi yī jù, biàn rèn qí tā yǐ chū tǔ de suì piàn, kě yǐ bǎ suì gǔ pīn hé qǐ lái le. méi cuò, bù jǐn rú cǐ wǒ men hái néng guān chá dào máo fà. méi cuò, kàn a. ér zhè yī piàn, zài wèi hé cháng zi lǐ, wǒ men fā xiàn le tā zuì hòu yī cān de cán liú wù, yǒu xiǎo yè zi de suì piàn, hái yǒu yī piàn shuǐ guǒ, yóu cǐ kě yǐ pàn duàn tā yǐ shù yè yǔ shuǐ guǒ wèi shí. zhè kě yǐ shuō shì zhāng lì shǐ kuài zhào, wǒ men kě yǐ guān chá dào tā de máo fà, tā zǎo cān hé wǎn cān de shí wù, bù tài néng qū fēn shì wǎn cān hái shì zǎo cān, dàn... nà lǐ kě néng shì gè gǔ ké. |