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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This'll just take a minute. As scientists delve deeper beneath the oceans surface, they find bizarre creatures that have adapted to harsh and extreme environments. Now comes a new o

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Only about one bone in a billion, it is thought, ever becomes fossilized. 据认为，在10亿根骨头当中，只有大约l根能变成化石。 If that is so, it means that the complete fossil legacy of all the Americans alive todaythat's 270 mill

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As one commentator has put it, fleeing would mean selecting a slow death over a quick one. 有一位评论家说，逃跑意味着在慢死和快死之中选择慢死。 The death toll would be very little affected by any plausible relocation effort,

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