Leafy sea dragons are very well disguised creatures.

绿叶海龙是非常善于伪装的生物。

You see, the leafy sea dragons are very well disguised creatures.

你看，绿叶海龙是非常善于伪装的生物。

The sea dragons have appendages all over their bodies that are shaped like leaves.

海龙整个身体都有附属物，形状像树叶一样。

She says the sea dragon look like something out of this world.

她说，海龙" 看起来不像这个世界的生物。"

The sea dragon is related to the better-known sea horse.

海龙与人们熟悉的海马有亲缘关系。

Aquarium officials opened a sea dragon exhibit earlier this month.

本月初，水族馆官员举办了一场海龙展览。

To see how this works, let's look at the sea dragon. It is a master of disguise.

要明白这是如何进行的，让我们来看一下海龙。它是伪装大师。

This is Temnodontosaurus, one of the biggest of the sea dragons so far discovered.

这是泰曼鱼龙，目前为止发现的最大的海龙之一。

In the first example, the professor talks about the leafy sea dragon.

在第一个例子中，教授谈到了绿叶海龙。

And they're most definitely not, as the BBC dubbed them " Sea dragon dinosaur dolphin fossils."

当然，它们也不是 BBC 所说的那样“海龙－恐龙－海豚化石。”

An example of this is seen in the morphology of the body of the leafy sea dragons.

一个例子就是绿叶海龙的身体形态。

This way predators fail to recognize the sea dragon and a bush of seaweed.

这样捕食者就无法识别海龙和海藻丛。

In addition, the camouflage helps the leafy sea dragons prey on smaller ocean creatures, such as crustaceans.

除此之外，伪装有助于绿叶海龙捕食甲壳类等较小的海洋生物。

The leafy sea dragon lives his whole life in the same patch of water at the same depth.

叶海龙一生都生活在同一片水域的同一深度。

Since the sea dragons are so well hidden in their environment, they have no known natural predators.

因为海龙在它们的环境中隐藏得很好，所以它们没有自然掠食者。

In addition, the camouflage helps the leafy sea dragons prey on other small ocean creatures, such as crustaceans.

除此之外，伪装还可以帮助绿叶海龙捕食其他小型海洋生物，例如甲壳动物。

And since the sea dragons are so well hidden in their environment, they have no known natural predators.

因为海龙在环境中隐藏得很好，所以它们没有已知的天敌。

They hope the show will lead to the leafy sea dragon reproducing for the first time in captivity.

他们希望这次展览能让叶海龙首次在养殖环境下繁殖。

The sea dragon is covered with skin that looks like leaves. The skin helps the dragon look like a piece of seaweed.

海龙全身覆盖着看上去类似叶子的皮肤。皮肤使它看上去像是海藻。

Few aquariums have sea dragons, and there are only two kinds of them: the leafy and the weedy.

拥有海龙的水族馆很少，并且只有两种：叶海龙和草海龙。