A few hardy species wiped out many of the Mediterranean invertebrates.

少数顽强的物种消灭了许多地中海无脊椎动物。

Indeed, unaltered shells of marine invertebrates are known from deposits over 100 million years old.

事实上，海洋无脊椎动物不变的外壳是通过1亿年前的沉积物发现的。

Insects and even small invertebrates have been found preserved in the hardened resins of conifers and certain other trees.

人们在针叶树和某些其它树木的硬化树脂中发现了昆虫，甚至发现了小型无脊椎动物。

Bo not use with corals and invertebrates.

珊瑚和无脊椎动物不适用本产品。

About 12 million of the invertebrates are sold annually.

每年这种无脊椎动物要销售120万只。

The Marine invertebrates are important links in the Marine food chain.

这种海洋无脊椎动物是海洋生物链中重要的一环。

This spider challenges what we thought we knew about arachnids and invertebrates.

狼蛛的这一特性也挑战了人类对蛛形纲动物及无脊椎动物的认知。

Colossal squid are the world's largest invertebrates, or animals without backbones.

大王乌贼是世界上最大的无脊椎动物。

Other Scripps oceanographic collections include invertebrates, mud cores and rocks.

克里普斯海洋研究所的其他海洋类藏品还包括无脊椎动物、泥芯和岩石。

Today's shorebirds shuffle along muddy flats pecking and probing for invertebrates to eat.

今天的滨鸟拖着脚走在泥泞的地面上，寻觅着可供食用的无脊椎动物。

The function of such fluorescent proteins in corals and other invertebrates is unknown

目前尚未了解这种在珊瑚和其他无脊椎动物身上发现的荧光蛋白质的功能。

The bugs sustain not only the plant, but an intricate food web of bacteria, plankton and invertebrates.

这些怪物不仅供养着植物，而且是由细菌、浮游生物和无脊椎动物组成的一个复杂的食物网。

The passages remain moist year-round, supporting dozens of species of invertebrates and amphibians.

这种通道常年不变地保持潮湿，支持着数十种无脊椎动物和两栖类动物。

Scientists recently discovered that the eyeless invertebrates “see” by detecting light with their spines.

科学家最近发现这些没有眼睛的无脊椎动物可以用它们的刺上的探测光来看东西。

Genetic mechanisms for chemical resistance in wild species are known for some invertebrates, such as bugs.

斯蒂门还说，在野生动物中，已知具有抗化学毒性遗传机制的是某些无脊椎动物，如昆虫。

Giving up my work in the mammalian brain to go work on invertebrates, they thought, was a major step backwards.

我放弃研究哺乳动物大脑的工作，转而研究无脊椎动物。他们认为，这是一个很大的退步。

The influence social experience has on the female Wolf spider's mating choice is almost unheard of among invertebrates.

在无脊椎动物这一群体中，社会经验对雌性狼蛛择偶的影响可说是闻所未闻的。

Many invertebrates have shells of calcium carbonate that bear evidence of the physical conditions in which they formed.

许多无脊椎动物的碳酸钙贝壳中可以找到其形成时自然条件的证据。

Small fish and invertebrates also graze on the plant-like organisms, and then those smaller animals are eaten by bigger ones.

小鱼和无脊椎动物也以这些植物类生物为食，然后则是众所周知的小鱼吃虾米，大鱼吃小鱼。

The phenomenon has been most extensively studied in invertebrates, but is also seen in horses, cows and some species of deer.

这个现象在无脊椎动物中已经广泛的被研究过，而且在马、牛和某些鹿中也有出现。

Shelled invertebrates also have a home in the collection, including a giant Marine isopod (pill bug) from the deep sea below.

克里普斯海洋研究所也收集了大量的具壳类无脊椎动物，如下图中这只来自深海的巨型等足类。

Whales and other Marine mammals, fish, and even some invertebrates depend on sound, which travels much farther in water than light does.

鲸鱼和其他海洋哺乳动物，鱼类甚至一些无脊椎动物依靠声音，声音在水中传播要比光快。

Tardigrades and rotifers - small invertebrates - are among those that have evolved the ability to go into suspended animation in tough times.

节肢动物和轮虫(一种小无脊椎动物)在条件恶劣的时代可以进入假死状态。

The rest falls to the invertebrates: pulsing jelly fish, darting shrimp, fixed colonies5 of coral polyps, and crawlers and diggers of the floor.

其余部分落入无脊椎动物嘴中：脉动式水母、刺虾、珊瑚虫群、海底的爬行动物和潜在泥中的动物。

Urchins feed on algae and invertebrates-a recent study found that the sound of their teeth scraping on reefs can cause a rise in ocean noise.

海胆以海藻和无脊椎动物为食——一项近期的研究发现它们牙齿磨礁石发出的声音会增加海洋的噪音。

Such a close co-existence with a photosynthetic organism has previously been found in invertebrates, such as corals, but never in a vertebrate.

这种和光合作用微生物的亲密共存现象曾被发现存在于无脊椎动物中，比如说珊瑚，但是从未在脊椎动物中发现过。

Therefore, they need the stopover habitat—the shallows, the sandbars, the security, the corn and invertebrates—to complete their arduous yearly cycle.

因此，它们需要这个中途停留的栖息地——浅滩、沙洲、安全、玉米和无脊椎动物——来完成年复一年的努力。

Small invertebrates make up yet another collection at Scripps. The copepods above are just a few of 100 million crumb-sized creatures in the collection.

小型无脊椎动物也是克里普斯海洋研究所的收藏对象，其数量足有上亿种，上图中的桡足类(copepod)样本仅是其中的一小部分。