Until the recent discovery of fossilized sauropod nesting grounds, scientists were thus uncertain whether sauropods laid eggs or gave birth to live young.
因此,直到最近发现蜥脚类恐龙筑巢地的化石之前,科学家们还不能确定蜥脚类动物到底是产卵还是胎生。
Other sites in Utah are known to be dinosaur nesting grounds, since eggs are found there.
由于发现了恐龙蛋,人们知道犹他州还有其它恐龙筑巢地。
Their nesting grounds now lie under the oil slick; their friends and family are dead or dying. What is there for them to return to?
它们的鸟巢现在在油污之下,它们的亲朋好友已经死去或奄奄一息,它们返回旧地的意义何在呢?
The complex natural climate cycle has given the freshwater nesting grounds running through this area complex changes between wet and dry.
复杂的自然气候循环赋予了这个区域内相通的淡水栖息地复杂的干湿变化。
Often referred to as the "City of ten Thousand Shrines," downtown Kyoto is the nesting grounds for the Kyoto Tokyu Hotel, located 45 miles from Osaka International Airport.
常被称为“一万圣地”的城市,“繁华的京都是京都东急酒店的筑巢地,距大阪国际机场45公里。”
A study published last year revealed how the penguins depart their nesting grounds in February and head north on foot and ice floes to flee the protracted darkness of the Antarctic winter.
去年公布的一份研究报告显示,南极企鹅会在二月份离开筑巢地,依靠浮冰徒步向北进发,以避开南极冬天的极夜。
Godfrey said his organisation was working on plans to dig up about 1, 000 nests, or 100, 000 eggs, from nesting grounds in the Florida Panhandle and transfer them to hatcheries for safekeeping.
Godfrey说他的组织正计划将佛罗里达州狭长地带的1,000个海龟巢穴或者说是100,000只蛋转移至安全地带进行人工孵化。
After a breeding year - during which they can lay up to 1,000 eggs - they head back to the feeding grounds for another few years to build up their reserves before returning to the nesting beaches.
经历了一个繁殖期,他们有的可以产下1,000颗蛋,它们就游回了它们的觅食区,在那里生活了一些年,为回到筑巢的沙滩储备能量。