And in fact, this is the first record of an ankylosaur from Africa.

事实上，这第一次在非洲现的甲龙记录。

It was an early member of the evolutionary family that led to the dinosaur group called ankylosaurs.

它进化族的早期成员，最终形成了叫做甲龙的恐龙群。

Now, not only that, it's also the oldest ankylosaur from anywhere in the world.

不仅如此，它还世界上最古老的甲龙。

I want to introduce to you 'Spicomellus afer', which is the oldest ankylosaur and the first from Africa.

我想给大非洲刺圈龙，它最古老的甲龙，也第一次在非洲现的甲龙。

We found that it has a tissue type that we only find in ankylosaurs among dinosaurs of this age.

我们现它的组织类型纪中期恐龙中只出现在甲龙身上的。

It's T-shaped in cross-section and we only see T-shaped ribs in stegosaurs and in ankylosaurs.

背肋骨横截面呈 T 形，只出现在剑龙类和甲龙类身上。

That, she and her colleagues reckon, was to bash other ankylosaurs.

她和她的同事认为，这为了打击其他甲龙。

Stegosaurs are very much like their armored cousin the ankylosaurs in having very small forelegs and very long hind legs.

剑龙的前腿很短而后腿又很长，这一点很像它们带甲的亲戚甲龙。

Dyoplosaurus was the first ankylosaur discovered with evidence of a tail club.

Dyoplosaurus 第一个现有尾巴棒状证据的甲龙。

Whether something similar pertained to ankylosaurs is difficult to determine from the existing evidence.

根据现有证据很难确定类似的东西否与甲龙有关。

Comparing ankylosaurs with animals alive today suggests that it was.

将甲龙与今天活着的动物进行比较，表明它的确会这么做。

And you definitely would not want to get hit by an ankylosaur tail club.

而且您绝对不想被甲龙尾部棍棒击中。

Ankylosaurs probably used armor as their main mode of defense.

甲龙可能使用盔甲作为它们的主要防御方式。

Now you might think that this piece of equipment is pretty typical for an ankylosaur.

现在你可能会认为这件装备对于甲龙来说非常典型的。

This one belonged to a kind of ankylosaur, known as anodontosaur.

这个尾锤属于一种甲龙，它被称为无齿甲龙。

Fossils show ankylosaur tails had similar adaptations.

化石显示甲龙的尾巴有类似的适应性。

We could finally answer with certainty whether ankylosaur tail clubs could've been used as a weapon.

我们终于可以肯定地回答甲龙尾巴棒否可以用作武器。

The aetosaurs, for example, were gone, but stegosaurs and ankylosaurs eventually took their place as armor-covered herbivores.

例如，翼龙消失了，但剑龙和甲龙最终取而代之， 成为披着盔甲的食草动物。

Now, the ankylosaur family tree can be split into two main groups, the ankylosaurids and the nodosaurids.

现在， 甲龙科可以分为两大类，甲龙科和结节龙科。

Those fights are over mates, which is what Dr Arbour suggests was also going on with ankylosaurs.

这些争斗为了配偶，阿伯博士认为甲龙也如此。