2016年托福阅读背景知识：常见爬行动物
1 / 3 2016 ： 【 】 90 ！2016 （TOEFL） >> Nailed it. ，“ !” Weird ( ， “That’s so weird.”)Reptile !! ( ￣ ￣) It was a creature so outlandish that scientists say it reminds them of the fanciful beasts conjured up by Dr. Seuss. But would the famous children's book author have thought up a marine reptile with a hammerhead snout it used to snack on algae? ， S ， ， ? marine reptile ( ) outlandish ， conjure up ， algae ， ( ) Scientists on Friday announced the discovery in southern China of new fossils of a reptile from 242 million years ago called Atopodentatus that clarify the nature of this strange crocodilesized, planteating seadweller. ， ， ， ， ， 24.2 A 。 ： 30 ， ~~ ! www.taodocs.com 1 / 3 2016 ： 【 】 90 ！2016 （TOEFL） >> Nailed it. ，“ !” Weird ( ， “That’s so weird.”)Reptile !! ( ￣ ￣) It was a creature so outlandish that scientists say it reminds them of the fanciful beasts conjured up by Dr. Seuss. But would the famous children's book author have thought up a marine reptile with a hammerhead snout it used to snack on algae? ， S ， ， ? marine reptile ( ) outlandish ， conjure up ， algae ， ( ) Scientists on Friday announced the discovery in southern China of new fossils of a reptile from 242 million years ago called Atopodentatus that clarify the nature of this strange crocodilesized, planteating seadweller. ， ， ， ， ， 24.2 A 。 ： 30 ， ~~ ! www.taodocs.com
2 / 3 ：Scientists announced the discovery. ~~~ A ， ~~!! When the first fossils of Atopodentatus were found in 2014, scientists thought, based on its poorly preserved skull, it had a downturned snout resembling a flamingo's beak with a vertical, zipperlike mouth. But two new fossil specimens, described in research published in the journal Science Advances, resolved the matter. 2014 A ， ， ， F 。 ， SA ， 。 based on .... fossil specimens publish ， ， Atopodentatus apparently used chisellike teeth along the edge of its blunt, hammershaped snout to scrape algae off hard underwater surfaces. It then quickly opened its mouth to create suction before closing its jaws to filter the plant material through densely packed and needleshaped teeth much like baleen whales strain tiny shrimplike krill from seawater. ，A ， 。 、 ， 。 ： ， ， ! 、 ! scrape off suction filter When thinking of hammerhead creatures, sharks may come to mind. But Atopodentatus' hammerhead feature differed in location and function from www.taodocs.com 2 / 3 ：Scientists announced the discovery. ~~~ A ， ~~!! When the first fossils of Atopodentatus were found in 2014, scientists thought, based on its poorly preserved skull, it had a downturned snout resembling a flamingo's beak with a vertical, zipperlike mouth. But two new fossil specimens, described in research published in the journal Science Advances, resolved the matter. 2014 A ， ， ， F 。 ， SA ， 。 based on .... fossil specimens publish ， ， Atopodentatus apparently used chisellike teeth along the edge of its blunt, hammershaped snout to scrape algae off hard underwater surfaces. It then quickly opened its mouth to create suction before closing its jaws to filter the plant material through densely packed and needleshaped teeth much like baleen whales strain tiny shrimplike krill from seawater. ，A ， 。 、 ， 。 ： ， ， ! 、 ! scrape off suction filter When thinking of hammerhead creatures, sharks may come to mind. But Atopodentatus' hammerhead feature differed in location and function from www.taodocs.com
3 / 3 the sharks, whose eyes are on the end of lateral extensions on their head. ， ， A ， 。 come to mind lateral ， Atopodentatus appeared during the Triassic Period relatively soon after the biggest mass extinction of species in Earth's history, illustrating that life was bouncing back nicely. Other oddball creatures also swam the seas at the time, including a reptile called Dinocephalosaurus whose neck comprised half of its 17foot (5.25 meters) length.Atopodentatus ， ， 。 ， D 。 bounce back ， www.taodocs.com 3 / 3 the sharks, whose eyes are on the end of lateral extensions on their head. ， ， A ， 。 come to mind lateral ， Atopodentatus appeared during the Triassic Period relatively soon after the biggest mass extinction of species in Earth's history, illustrating that life was bouncing back nicely. Other oddball creatures also swam the seas at the time, including a reptile called Dinocephalosaurus whose neck comprised half of its 17foot (5.25 meters) length.Atopodentatus ， ， 。 ， D 。 bounce back ， www.taodocs.com
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