Animals of the Land的意思|示意

In contrast to aquatic life, land-based animals, whose vision-based sensory field extends for hundreds of meters, have time to contemplate a variety of actions and pick the best one.

和水生动物不同，陆生动物的感官场建立在视觉的基础上，可以延展好几百米远，因此它们有时间考虑各种行动并选择最好的一种。

Almost nothing grows on their land; their animals graze on desert bushes; the people mine ingots of salt from what looks like shimmering pack ice.

他们的土地几乎寸草不生；他们在沙漠荒野里放牧牲口；人们从看上去像闪光的浮冰的物质中提炼盐块。

AS HUMANITY grabs great swathes of land for its use, the wilderness favoured by other animals shrinks.

人类将大片土地据为己有，减少了其它动物所喜爱的野地。

Archaelogists also discovered a number of larger land-based animals and plant fossils including the sharp tooth of an archosaur and the remains of some ancient conifer-like plants.

考古学家同事发现许多大型陆地动物和植物化石，比如一只祖龙的尖牙和一些古代针叶松类型的植物化石。

Without rain, the land began to turn to the desert that we know today, leaving people and animals to seek ever-dwindling sources of water.

没有了雨水，土地开始沙化，逐渐演变成我们今天所熟悉的大沙漠，迫使人类与动物背井离乡，到处寻找日益减少的水源。

The Permian extinction—the worst extinction event in the planet\'s history—is estimated to have wiped out more than 90 percent of all marine species and 70 percent of land animals.

二叠纪的生命大灭绝，是我们这个星球上最可怕的一次物种灭绝，海洋的90%的生命以及陆地上70%的生命都消失了。