It’s one thing to find a whole dinosaur skeleton, but quite another to discover it’s been buried with its own footprint.
发现一整具恐龙的骨骼是一回事,但是发现它被埋在自己的脚印之下却又是另外一回事。
In a unique find, Polish palaeontologists found a perfectly preserved print next to the skeleton of an 80million-year-old Protoceratops, which was dug up in 1965 in Mongolia.
在一个有趣的发现中,波兰古生物学家发现了一个在一具1965年在蒙古发现的,具有八千万年历史的原角龙骨架旁边保存完好的脚印。
The specimen, complete with surrounding rock, had been on display for the past 50 years at a museum in Poland, but amazingly no one had spotted the footprint.
这个环绕在岩石中的样本已经在波兰的一个博物馆中陈列了50年了,但是却从来没有任何人发现过这个脚印。
Then Grzegorz Niedzwiedzki and Tomasz Singer prepared it for display at the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw and made the extraordinary chance discovery.
格里兹格斯·尼德韦德兹克和汤玛斯·司辛格在华沙的波兰科学院准备展览的时候有了这个意外的发现。
Dr Phil Manning, a palaeontologist at the University of Manchester, describes the find as ‘gobsmackingly amazing’ and also ‘bloody useful’.
菲尔·曼尼博士,一位曼彻斯特大学的古生物学家,将这个发现描述为“相当震惊”和“极其有用”。
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