See, in most of the rest of the world, predatory mammals – which are mostly in the order Carnivora – have small incisors and big canines.

你看， 在世界其他大部分地区，食肉哺乳动物（大部分属于食肉目）拥有小门牙和大犬齿。

The earliest members of the order Carnivora prowled the land around this time, as did the creodonts - an odd group of mammals that seemed at once catlike and doglike, though they weren't actually related to either.

食肉目最早的成员大约在这段时间在这片土地上四处游荡，creodonts 也是如此——这是一群奇怪的哺乳动物， 看起来既像猫又像狗，尽管它们实际上与两者都没有关系。