All the ammonites vanished, but their cousins the nautiloids, who lived similar lifestyles, swam on.

菊石统统消失了，但它们表亲鹦鹉螺目软体动物却存下来，尽管它们有着相似方式。

Unlike nautiloids, which grew slowly and invested a lot of energy into making a few offspring, ammonites grew quickly and had many offspring.

与鹦鹉螺并投入大量精力制造少数代不同，菊石迅速且代众多。

The nautiloids were probably saved by their slow and steady lifestyles, and six species in two genera have survived to the present day.

鹦鹉螺可能是因其而稳定方式而得救，两个属六个物种存至今。

Up until this point, all cephalopods had been members of the slow and steady group known as nautiloids, from the pioneering little Plectronoceras to the imposing Cameroceras.

在此之前， 所有头足类动物都属于被称为鹦鹉螺而稳定类群，从开创性小型 Plectronoceras 到雄伟 Cameroceras。

At the end of the Cretaceous Period, a fatal blow struck the ammonites and most of the nautiloids: the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event -- the same event that killed the non-avian dinosaurs.

在白垩纪末期，一个致命打击击中了菊石和大多数鹦鹉螺：白垩纪-古近纪灭绝事件——与杀死非鸟类恐龙事件相同。

Nautiloids today, as ammonites would have done, control their buoyancy, just like a submarine, by emptying the chambers of water to be able to float and refilling them to be able to sink.

今天鹦鹉螺，就像菊石会做那样，控制它们浮力，就像潜水艇一样，通过排空腔室中水以便能够漂浮，并重新用水填充腔室以便能够下沉。