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To find out more, I've come to the Natural History Museum of Stuttgart in Germany.
为了了解更多，我来到了德国的斯图加特自然历史博物馆。
Here, they have one of the most impressive and varied collections of ichthyosaurs in the world.
在这里，他们拥有世界上最令人印象深刻、种类最丰富的鱼龙收藏。
They came in all shapes and sizes but of all the ichthyosaurs that existed 200 million years ago, there was one which was particularly fearsome.
它们的形状、大小各异，但在2亿年前存在的所有鱼龙中，有一种鱼龙最为可怕。
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。
They grew up to 10 meters long and individual bones have been discovered which suggests that they could grow even bigger than that.
它们能长到10米长，不过人们还发现了一些骨头，这些骨头表明它们还能长得更大。
The remains of these terrifying sea monsters were discovered in a quarry just outside Stuttgart.
这些可怕的海怪残骸是在斯图加特城外的一个采石场被发现的。
These are the biggest complete temnodontosaurus fossils ever found.
这是迄今为止发现的最大、最完整的泰曼鱼龙化石。
This huge predator had the largest eye known of any animal, which would have given it extremely acute eyesight.
这种巨大的掠食者拥有在已知所有动物中最大的眼睛，这赋予了它极其敏锐的视力。
Not only that, but the eye was surrounded by a ring of scutes-bony plates-to protect it from the water pressure at depth.
不仅如此，它的眼睛周围还环绕着一圈板状骨，这可以保护它不受水下水压的伤害。
So with eyes the size of footballs, this monster was able to hunt at all depths of the Jurassic ocean.
正因如此，这只眼睛有足球那么大的怪物才能够在侏罗纪海洋的不管多深的海域捕食。
It also had rows of sharp teeth that would have allowed it to rip apart almost anything.
它还长着一排排锋利的牙齿，几乎可以撕开任何东西。
These teeth are shaped like blades, well-suited for cutting into flesh.
这些牙齿的形状像刀片，非常适合切肉。
And here's another specimen of temnodontosaurus that is proof positive that it really was a hunter.
这是另外一个泰曼鱼龙标本，它可以证明泰曼鱼龙确实是一个猎手。
Here is its stomach and inside its stomach you can see these tiny little circular bones, which are the backbones, the vertebrae of a baby ichthyosaur.
这是它的胃，在它的胃里你可以看到这些小小的圆形骨头，它们是脊椎，幼鱼龙的椎骨。
So we now know that temnodontosaurus could devour young ichthyosaurs, but would one have been capable of eating an adult ichthyosaur, like ours?
所以现在我们知道泰曼鱼龙可以吞食幼年鱼龙，但是它们能吞食成年鱼龙吗？比如我们这只。
Fossils of temnodontosaurus have been found in other regions, including the Jurassic Coast.
在其他地区也发现了泰曼鱼龙化石，包括侏罗纪海岸。
So this monster could well be our prime suspect.
所以这个怪物很可能是我们的头号嫌疑犯。
