Uncovering the secrets of the TERRIFYING pliosaur 🦖 | Attenborough and the Giant Sea Monster – BBC

Uncovering the secrets of the TERRIFYING pliosaur 🦖 | Attenborough and the Giant Sea Monster – BBC

They thought to have been around 10 m in length that’s about the size of a double-decker Bus in the late Jurassic Europe was an archipelago of islands much closer to the Equator than it is today it Seas were warm shallow and teeming with life and in these Waters underneath my feet lur the ultimate Marine Predator the P unlike dinosaurs that lived on land these colossal marine reptiles spent their whole lives in the ocean they thought to have been around 10 m in length that’s about the size of a double-decker bus they had long broad flippers short strong necks huge heads and enormous

Jaws but there’s still a lot we don’t know about these great sea monsters which is why this new discovery is so important Steve believes that the entire pliosaur may still be inside the cliff but it’s the skull on which he’s concentrating a skull can reveal more

About an animal than any other part of its Skeleton finding a complete specimen is rare but it can tell us a great deal about how the animal lived it’s quite hot and thirsty work Steve and Chris think they will have about 3 weeks to dig the fossil out before the storms of late summer [Applause] coming this is a learning curve I

Thought stupidly that it wouldn’t be quite as hard as this we’re probably over a meter in there’s the the skull there just behind me it’s up to us now to get out without any damage if the skull is successfully extracted it will be taken to the etes collection Museum in Kimber which was

Founded by Steve in 2016 and now contains nearly 3,000 fossils from the Jurassic period

Sir David Attenborough reveals the secrets of the ultimate marine predator, the pliosaur.

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