2022-05-04

A race against time to reveal our ancient past.

考古人员为揭开远古的奥秘争分夺秒。

The team from the Natural History Museum has just three days to excavate1 this unique site.

英国自然历史博物馆的这支团队只有三天时间来挖掘这个独特的遗址。

The Cotswold quarry2 holds a treasure trove3 of sea creatures that lived during the Jurassic period. What's here is so extraordinary, the location is being kept secret.

科茨沃尔德采石场蕴藏着大量珍贵的侏罗纪时期海洋生物化石。这里的遗迹是如此非比寻常，就连它的位置都一直被保密。

Tim Ewin, palaeontologist, London's Natural History Museum

We've got another really nice exceptional specimen4 here. It's actually a brittle5 star. It's likely to be a new species. It's the quality of preservation6. It's the number of fossils that we're finding. But it's also the diversity – it's really unprecedented7 in geological sites of this age across the world.

蒂姆·埃文      伦敦自然历史博物馆古生物学家

“我们在这里又发现了一个非常特别的标本。这其实是一只海蛇尾，很可能是一个新发现的物种。这里的特别之处在于化石保存质量之完好、发现的化石数量之多，但同时还有物种的多样性，在世界各地该时期的地质遗迹中是史无前例的。”