然而这并不意味着一个动物学家会弄错2亿岁的海龟或是4亿岁的蝎子属于现在存活的何种物种。
What is remarkable about the new find is that it is so similar to modern animals that it canbe assigned to an existing genusthe lowest level of Linnaean classification above aspeciesrather than just to some higher taxonomic group.
新发现引人注目的是它与现代动物如此相似,以致它可以被列入现有生物分类种类,而不是只被列入某一更高等的分类组。
That is rare indeed.
这的确罕见。
Even the modern coelacanth, on closer examination, had to be put in a different genus fromany known fossil.
经过仔细观察,甚至就连现代腔棘鱼都必须得归类于不同于任何已知化石的种类。
Clearly the body plan of Schizodactylus is not merely good, but optimal, at least for theenvironment the animal lives in.
显然,节肢动物的体型方案不仅是最好的,也是最佳的,至少对这种动物生活的环境而言是如此。
Alas for Schizodactylus, the sandy deserts it prefers have retreated from north-eastern Braziland its optimality there has vanished.
唉,对节肢动物来说,它所喜爱的沙质沙漠已经从巴西东北部退却,它在那里的最佳体态已经消失。
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