英语听力：2013-06-16 《恐龙的战争》3 顽强防御—1

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For these plant-eating giants, survival relies on a battery of weapons and defenses as impressive on the inside as they are on the outside. A single blow from those horns could kill you.

 

Now, 65 million years, on, cutting-edge imaging technology takes us inside their minds to reveal what the world’s toughest defenders² are made of.

 

America during the Cretaceous Period, stalking the landscape are some of the most ferocious³ predators⁴ ever to inhabit the earth. Carnivores have evolved into formidable hunters. It’s the only way they can survive in this brutal⁵ world. The prey⁶ they hunt are the most well-armed, best-protected animals in history. 

 

Herbivores of the Cretaceous are built to take on the biggest teeth and sharpest claws nature has ever produced. Ankylosaurus has armor designed like a bulletproof vest. Triceratops’ horns can pierce he skins of a Tyrannosaurus Rex. Parasaurolophus can detect a threat miles away. And a full-grown Sauroposeidon is a colossus to big to overcome.

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