与恐龙同行（2025）

6600万年前
Over 66 million years ago.
我们的地球处于
Our world was ruled
恐龙的统治之下
by dinosaurs.
这些庞然大物
The largest animals
是有史以来漫步于地球的最大动物
that have ever walked the earth.
如今 来自世界各地的恐龙专家
Today, dinosaur experts across the globe
正在发掘它们遗留的骨骼化石
are uncovering the bones they left behind.
让我们得以对这些非凡动物的生活
Allowing us to imagine how these extraordinary creatures
展开丰富想象
may have lived.
生动讲述这些巨兽的故事
So that we can tell their stories
再次与恐龙同行
and they can walk again.
《与恐龙同行》
第一集 雨林孤儿
在蒙大拿州东部
Eastern Montana.
有一片人迹罕至的广袤荒野
A vast untamed wilderness
隐藏着无尽的奥秘
with extraordinary stories to tell.
这里是恐龙的国度
This is dinosaur country.
来自北卡罗来纳
Here a team
自然科学博物馆的一个研究团队
from the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences
正在这里发掘一种标志性恐龙
is excavating an iconic species,
三角龙的化石
a triceratops.
哦 太好了
Oh sweet.
不过这只恐龙并不是庞然大物
But this is no ancient giant.
这是一只幼龙 个头很小
But it's really small, very young individual.
发现了一个小家伙
Got a nice baby drake.
这可是一个惊人的发现
A phenomenal find.
研究团队给它取名克洛弗
The team calls her Clover.
通过研究克洛弗的骨骼化石
Studying her bones
我们可以推测它所处的环境
we can begin to imagine her world
并第一次
and tell her story
讲述它的生命故事
for the first time.
6600万年前
在白垩纪晚期
At the end of the Cretaceous,
北美洲是个一望无际的绿色世界
North America is a vast expanse of green.
如今蒙大拿州的所在位置
Where Montana is today
过去是一片郁郁葱葱的亚♥热♥带雨林
there is a lush landscape of sprawling sub tropical forests,
河道纵横交错
crisscrossed by waterways.
这就是拉腊米迪亚古陆
This is Laramidia,
这里生活着许多体形庞大的恐龙
home to prehistoric giants
以及一些
and the occasional
小家伙
not so giant.
这只三角龙幼龙是克洛弗
Meet Clover, the triceratops.
它只有半米高
Barely half a metre tall.
体形和一只大型犬相当
she's the size of a large dog.
尽管体形娇小
Despite her size,
克洛弗却喜欢独自在丛林中穿梭
Clover roams the jungle alone.
这些奇特的白乎乎的东西意味着
These strange white objects mean one thing,
游戏时间到了
playtime.
但在这片巨兽横行的森林里
But curiosity can be a dangerous thing
强烈的好奇心可能会让它陷入险境
when you're living in a land of monsters.
克洛弗是极少见的标本
Clover is rare.
研究人员发现的大都是成年三角龙化石
The vast majority of triceratops fossils discovered are from adults.
克洛弗的遗骸
Clover's remains
或许能让我们了解三角龙幼龙的生活
are a chance to uncover the story of a youngster.
对团队负责人埃里克·伦德来说
A once in a lifetime opportunity
这是千载难逢的机会
for team leader, Eric Lund.
看看这些牙齿
Check out these teeth.
化石清修师尼基·西蒙经过精心修复
Clover's tiny jaw bone has been painstakingly reconstructed
还原了克洛弗的颌骨
by fossil restorer Nicky Simon.
它是不是美极了
Isn't she gorgeous?
确实很美 很迷人
She is gorgeous, it's beautiful.
如此完整的上颌骨化石十分罕见
Don't often find upper jaws this complete
更别说还长着完整牙齿的了
let alone with all the teeth in them.
没有丝毫磨损痕迹
No wear on them.
用于切割植物的牙齿边缘
The teeth's edges for slicing through plant material,
依然非常锋利
are still razor sharp.
看看吧
Check them out.
好的
Sure.
哦哇
Oh yeah.
它的牙齿几乎没怎么用过
These have been barely been used.
看起来简直像食肉恐龙的牙齿
They almost like carnivorous.
根据牙齿的状态
The teeth are a clue
可以推断克洛弗年纪尚幼
to Clover's young age.
看看这根肱骨有多小
Look how small this upper arm bone is.
是的 测量一下
Yeah, let's see.
通过测量克洛弗的肱骨
By measuring Clover's arm bone.
只有一英尺多点
Little over a foot.
大约34厘米
About 34 centimetres.
他们可以更精准地推算这只三角龙的年龄
They can more accurately estimate how old she was.
它可能只有三岁左右
She must have only been about three years old.
也就是说它还是一只幼龙
Which means she was just a baby.
一只被独自埋葬的幼龙
A baby buried all alone.
只有它自己
Seems to be by herself,
周围没发现成年三角龙的化石
haven't found any adult bones in this quarry.
脱离族群和妈妈的庇护
Without the herd, without her mother,
它脆弱不堪
very vulnerable.
我们无从知晓克洛弗为什么会落单
We'll never know why Clover was alone,
不过可以确定的是
what we do know
在白垩纪晚期
is that in the late Cretaceous,
幼龙很难独自生存下来
young solitary dinosaurs don't last long.
这是一只地狱翼龙
An Infernodrakon,
一种生活在白垩纪晚期的常见的大型翼龙
a giant Pterosaur common at the end of the Cretaceous.
它展开5米长的膜状翼
With a five-metre wingspan
试图吓退克洛弗
it tries to intimidate Clover.
之后它用锋利的喙发起了攻击
And then there's the razor-sharp beak.
好在克洛弗非常灵活
But Clover is nimble.
而这只地狱翼龙妈妈
And this mother
只是想拿回自己的蛋
just wants her egg back.
三角龙幼龙这一次非常幸运
This time the little Triceratops was lucky.
然而危险无处不在
But danger lurks everywhere.
克洛弗还会遇到更大的挑战
And it gets much, much bigger.
在克洛弗发现位置的1.6公里外
A mile from Clover's dig site,
发掘团队取得了更多发现
more fossilised remains are emerging.
我们在这里发现了一根
We got a bone over here that's
又细又长的恐龙骨化石
very thin, very slender, very long.
看起来像是尾椎上的一个突起
This looks like one of the processes off of the tail vertebrae
它能将尾巴的各个部分相互锁定
and it helps lock the tail
使尾巴更加坚固
into a much more rigid structure.
这些纤细的骨头可能属于一条
These thin bones may once have formed part
6米长肌肉发达的尾巴
of a thick muscular tail, six metres long,
但这并不是三角龙的化石
but this was no Triceratops.
这是肉食性恐龙的尾部特征
This is sort of a meat eating dinosaur feature.
古生物学家伊利斯·马尔雷迪
Palaeontologist Elis Mulready
找到了一条关键线索
holds the final clue.
磨损有些严重
It's a little bit beat up.
这颗粗大的牙齿是用来啃碎骨头的
It's really thick tooth designed for crushing bones.
还有一排紧密排列的小锯齿
It's got those kind of drawn together serrations.
摸起来仍然很锋利
You can still feel them.
真想见见这颗牙齿的"主人"
I would love to meet the creature who had this tooth
它肯定有点吓人
but it'd be a bit scary.
是啊
Yeah.
只有一种恐龙拥有这种可怕的牙齿
It's a tooth that can only belong to one animal.
那就是身高4米
Standing four metres tall
体重可达8吨♥的
and weighing in at eight tonnes...
霸王龙
Tyrannosaurus Rex.
这种地球史上最臭名昭著的食肉动物
With one and a half metre long jaws,
拥有1.5米长的下颌骨
the Earth's most infamous predator
能将克洛弗整个吞下
could swallow Clover whole.
幸运的是 克洛弗并不是它的目标
Fortunately, the hunter's focus is elsewhere.
霸王龙的趾垫就像减震器一样
Padded feet act like shock absorbers
能让它悄无声息地接近猎物
keeping it's approach quiet.
对霸王龙来说