You see, Encephalartos woodii, is what is known as a cycad, and cycads have been around for 300 million years.

你看，伍德苏铁就是我们所知的苏铁，并且苏铁植物已经存在三亿年了。

Because it was so heavily armored, it could only eat low vegetation, so ferns and cycad plants and low-lying shrubs.

因为它身披重甲，只能吃到较低的植物就是蕨类、苏铁类植物和低矮的树丛。

Early on, ferns and cycads dominated the landscape.

早期，蕨类植物和苏铁植物在景观中占主导地位。

Characterized by a palm-like appearance, cycads are types of plants.

苏铁的特点是外观像手掌，是一种植物。

Before these early bloomers, conifers, ferns and cycads were the dominant plants.

在这些早期的灯笼裤之前，针叶树、蕨类植物 和苏铁是主要植物。

AZUZ : Ten-second trivia: A cycad is a type of what?

AZUZ ： 十秒琐事：苏铁是一种什么？

And then there were the cycads--seed bearing plants with tough spiky trunks and green fronds on top.

然后是苏铁——结籽的植物，树干坚硬，尖尖的，顶部有绿色的叶子。

The pollen it picked up was from a gymnosperm – the group that includes pines, cycads, and ginkgoes.

它采集的花粉来自裸子植物——包括松树、苏铁和银杏在内的植物群。

As the millennium rolled on, cycads flourished providing shade for triceratops, a perch for pterodactyls, and a tasty snack for brontosauruses.

在几千年的时间流逝中，苏铁蓬勃发展，为三角龙撑起了片片阴凉，为翼手龙提供了栖息处，并为雷龙提供了美味的食物。

Cycads have cones with seeds that are directly fertilized by pollen.

苏铁有球果，种子直接由花粉受精。