It was covered in bony plates with hard, pointy spikes.

身体表面是骨板，长有又硬又尖的刺。

It's long slow body is covered in bony plates, and its tail packs a punch.

它又矮又长的身体布满骨片，尾巴上长了个锤子。

Scelidosaurus was about 4-meters-long. It had four legs and ate plants. It was covered in bony plates with hard, pointy spikes.

肢龙大约有4米长。它有四条腿，以植物为食。身体上覆盖着一层又硬又尖的尖刺。

Instead, it had bony plates that it used to grind up its food, like decomposing plant and animal matter.

相反， 它有骨板用来研磨食物，比如分解植物和动物物质。

Now, by far the most recognizable parts of a stegosaurid are the bony plates along its back, often called scutes.

现在，到目前为止， 剑龙科动物最容易辨认的部分是其背部的骨板，通常称为盾片。

One of the first groups of lizards to spread around the world had relatively short limbs and bony plates on their bodies.

最早分布在世界各地的蜥蜴群之一，四肢相对较短，身体上有骨板。

Likewise, a later pareiasaur called Anthodon had more developed bony plates that formed a layer of armor a lot like a turtle's shell.

同样，后来一种名为 Anthodon 的翼龙具有更发达的骨板，这些骨板形成了一层很像乌龟壳的盔甲。

We all have big, forward-facing eyes that are either completely surrounded by a ring of bone or walled off by a bony plate.

我们都有大大的、朝前的眼睛，它们要么完全被一圈骨头包围着，要么被一块骨板隔开。

This seven-metre-long late-Cretaceous herbivore, shielded by thick bony plates and armed with a club at the end of its tail, has been depicted for decades using its weapon to batter the likes of Tyrannosaurus.

这种七米长的白垩纪晚期食草动物，被厚厚的骨板保护着，尾巴末端有一根棍子，几十年来一直被描绘成用它的武器打击霸王龙等动物。