Scientists uncovered the ancient arthropods in a formation they described as similar to modern-day migrating spiny lobsters.

科学家发现了这些排成行的古代节肢动物，将其描述为与现代的迁徙龙虾类似。

It was during this period that we see the earliest arthropods, the group that includes modern insects and crustaceans.

正是在这时期，我们看到了最早的节肢动物，包括现代虫甲壳类动物。

Well, six-legged arthropods also have this type of instrument.

其实虫也有这类乐器。

Like modern arthropods, trilobites had compound eyes composed of many tiny lenses.

就像现代的节肢动物，三叶虫也有由许多小晶体组成的复眼。

And Scorpius, which isn't hard to imagine as a venomous arthropod.

还有蝎子座，不难把它想象成种有毒的节肢动物。

The sea swarms with tiny arthropods today that have left no fossil record.

今天，海洋里充满着微小的节肢动物，它们没有留下化石记录。”

But arthropods have ventral nerves, and dorsal guts...you know, the poop chute.

但是节肢动物有腹神经子… 你懂的，就是粪便槽。

Springtails are tiny soil arthropods that launch themselves into the air to avoid predators, or in this case my finger.

跳虫是微小的土壤节肢动物，它们会将自己发射到空中以避开捕食者，或者在这种情况下是我的手指。

Zika virus is an arbovirus, meaning it's transmitted via certain arthropods, specifically mosquitos, so it's a mosquito-borne virus.

寨卡病毒是种虫媒病毒：即该病毒通过节肢动物传播，特别是蚊子，所以这是种通过蚊子传播的病毒。

The continents were home to only some sparse plants and fungi, and a few pioneering arthropods.

这些大陆只有些稀疏的 植物真菌，以及些开创性的节肢动物。

And over time, some animals like arthropods developed hard exoskeletons to protect themselves.

随着时间的推移，些像节肢动物这样的动物 发展出坚硬的外骨骼来保护自己。

And then if you go to all arthropods, Oh… . there's the coconut crab.

然后如果你去所有的节肢动物，哦......有椰子蟹。

In a single tree in this forest, we can find hundreds of thousands of arthropods representing over a thousand different species.

这片森林里的棵树上我们就能找到数十万只节肢动物分别属于千种不同种类。

First, we know that other types of arthropods swam in the open ocean, hunting their prey.

首先，我们知道其他类型的节肢动物在开阔的海洋中游动， 捕食它们的猎物。

And chitin is also the  basis for arthropod exoskeletons.

几丁质也是节肢动物外骨骼的基础。

It was probably the largest arthropod that ever walked on land.

它可能是曾经在陆地上行走过的最大的节肢动物。

All that oxygen was also a plus for the arthropods, which got HUGE in the Carboniferous.

所有这些氧气对节肢动物来说也是个加分项， 它们在石炭纪获得了巨大的收益。

Some specimens of Ottoia are so well preserved that we can even see tiny arthropods inside their stomach.

Ottoia 的些标本保存完好，我们甚至可以在它们的胃里看到微小的节肢动物。

Today, we're totally outnumbered, both in biomass and in diversity, by insects, arachnids, and other land-based arthropods.

今天，我们在生物量多样性方面完全不敌虫、蛛形纲动物其他陆生节肢动物。

Researchers from North Carolina State University working in New York City found that hungry urban arthropods play a significant role in the disposal of trash.

美国北卡罗来纳州立大学研究人员在纽约市的研究发现这些饥饿的节肢动物在处理垃圾方面成为了关键先生。