Cephalopods may have evolved complex brains long before our vertebrate relatives.

头足类或许比我们脊椎动物近亲更早化出复杂脑部。

Rather than a body map, the cephalopod brain has a behavior library.

章鱼脑部没有身体地图，却有个行为图书馆。

A cephalopod is a kind of sea creature, like a squid or octopus.

头足类动物是一种海洋生物，例如乌贼或章鱼。

Yeah. You do know what cephalopods are, don't you? - Yes, of course I do.

是，你知道头足类动物是什么，对吧？是，我当然知道。

Guess you could " magnapin" it on their deep " seeded" fear of being on a " cephalopod cast" .

我你可以将其放大到他们对捕捞头足类动物存在根深蒂固恐惧上。

How? Like other cephalopods, they can rapidly change the pigmentation patterns on their skin by contracting and relaxing their muscles.

如何做到？像其它头足类动物那样，它们可以通过收缩和放松肌肉来迅速改变皮肤上色素沉着图案。

Fortunately, our soaring cephalopod has a plan.

幸运是，我们翱翔头足类动物有一个计划。

They based their approach on cephalopods like octopuses and cuttlefish.

他们法基于章鱼和墨鱼等头足类动物。

Am I saying that cephalopods have better eyes than us?

我是说头足类动物眼睛比我们好吗？

A different modern cephalopod shows us how ammonites swam.

一种不同现代头足类动物向我们展示了菊石是如何游泳。

And as cameras became widespread, seafarers finally began capturing proof of these high-flying cephalopods.

随着照相机普及，海员们终于开始捕捉到这些高飞头足类动物证据。

But cephalopods–like octopuses, squid, and cuttlefish–they don't have a blind spot.

但是头足类动物——比如章鱼、鱿鱼和墨鱼——它们没有盲点。

We're quite lucky, in that ammonites belong to the large group of mollusks called the cephalopods.

我们很幸运，因为菊石属于被称为头足类一大类软体动物。

In ancient times, the shell was cephalopods’ greatest asset.

在古代，贝壳是头足类动物 最大财富。

And that kicked off an evolutionary arms race between fish and cephalopods.

这引发了 鱼类和头足类动物之间进化军备竞赛。

The cephalopods are very old, and they have slipped, protean, through many shapes.

它们形态多变， 经历了多种形态变。

In ancient times, the shell was cephalopods' greatest asset.

在远古时代，贝壳是头足类动物最大财富。

Ammonites did have one critical weakness compared to other cephalopods.

与其他头足类动物相比，菊石确实有一个严重弱点。

Scientists believe that this was the very first cephalopod — a group that now includes squids, octopuses, cuttlefish, and nautiluses.

科学家们认为这是最早头足类动物——现在包括鱿鱼、章鱼、墨鱼和鹦鹉螺类群。

Just look at this kaleidoscope of color of dynamically controlled pigments and reflectors that we see in the cephalopods.

看看我们在头足类动物身上看到由动态控制色素和反射体组成万花筒。