By 10: 24, the Earth is covered in carniforous forests, and the first winged insects appear.
到 10 点 24 分,地球被食肉森林覆盖,第一只带翅膀的昆虫出现了。
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And, you'll notice there's quite a big gap between the probably-earliest-insect and the appearance of winged insects in the fossil record.
而且,你会注意到化石记录中可能最早出现的昆虫与有翼昆虫的出现之间存在相当大的差距。
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The lantern, dangling from Christian's hand, brushed the feathery fronds in passing by, disturbing moths and other winged insects, which flew out and alighted upon its horny panes.
Winged insects represent the vast majority of insects today, and that diversity may be the result of the success that the power of flight gave them.
有翅昆虫代表了当今昆虫的绝大多数,这种多样性可能是飞行能力赋予它们成功的结果。
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But like we're talking like a caterpillar morphing into a butterfly.Right.That kind of drastic change.Right.Little pudgy guy on a leaf turns into, you know, like beautiful winged insect flying around drinking sugar water and flowers.
The Pterygota are a subclass of insects that includes the winged insects. It also includes insect orders that are secondarily wingless (that is, insect groups whose ancestors once had wings but that have lost them as a result of subsequent evolution).