Malta wants back a prehistoric shark tooth that was given as a present to Britain's Prince George by naturalist?David Attenborough, saying the fossil should be put on display in the island where it was discovered.
在被自然學(xué)家大衛(wèi)·愛德堡送給英國皇室的喬治王子做禮物之后，馬耳他共和國聲明那顆史前鯊魚牙應(yīng)該被放置在發(fā)現(xiàn)它的小島上。

Kensington Palace announced the gift on Saturday, saying the giant tooth was given to the seven-year-old prince when Attenborough attended a private viewing of his latest environmental documentary with members of the Royal Family.

肯辛頓皇宮在周六宣布了這項(xiàng)禮物。官方聲稱這顆巨大的牙齒是愛德堡在皇家家庭私人探視時(shí)，送給七歲的小王子的。

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Attenborough found the fossil during a family vacation to Malta in the late 1960s, the palace said. It was embedded in soft yellow limestone, and is believed to be about 23 million years old.

愛德堡在1960年代一次在馬耳他共和國的家庭旅行中找到了那顆牙齒?；蕦m官方聲稱：這顆牙被鑲嵌在柔軟的乳黃石灰?guī)r中，據(jù)說這顆牙有2千3多年萬歷史。

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However, Maltese Culture Minister Jose Herrera said the tooth should be in a local museum and promised to "set the ball rolling" to get it back.

然而，馬耳他文化部部長何塞·赫雷拉表示牙齒應(yīng)該被保存在當(dāng)?shù)氐牟┪镳^里，他同時(shí)保證會開始尋求機(jī)會讓它回來。

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"There are some artifacts that are important to Maltese natural heritage and which ended up abroad and deserve to be retrieved," Herrera told the Times of Malta, without giving details of how he intended to recover the fossil.

“有一些流落海外的歷史文物是對馬其他自然遺產(chǎn)很重要的存在，他們是值得被追回的”。赫雷拉表示。但他沒有透露任何關(guān)于如何修復(fù)化石的細(xì)節(jié)

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The tooth once belonged to a megalodon, an extinct species of giant shark that could grow up to 16 meters (52 feet).

這顆牙曾經(jīng)屬于一只巨齒鯊，一種已經(jīng)滅絕的巨大鯊魚，這種鯊魚可以長到16m（52尺）

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Malta was a British colony until 1964.

馬其他在1964年以前曾是英國殖民地。