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Attenborough and the Sea Dragon

??♪ The best time to lookis after a storm when a strong seahas moved sand and shingle and...

��♪ The best time to look
is after a storm when a strong sea
has moved sand and shingle and perhaps revealed
the rocks beneath

Full Transcript

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The best time to look is after a storm
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when a strong sea has moved sand and shingle
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and perhaps revealed the rocks beneath.
Duration
13 seconds
Views
28
Timestamp in Movie
00:26:00
Uploaded
Jun 28, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
BBC

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Movie Summary

Sir David Attenborough investigates the discovery of a 200 million year old Ichthyosaur on the Jurassic Coast in southern England.
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MARTILL: You sent me some photographs, - Attenborough and the Sea Dragon 00:04
MARTILL: You sent me some photographs,
First of all I noticed this here... - Attenborough and the Sea Dragon 00:04
First of all I noticed this here...
If you look you can just see - Attenborough and the Sea Dragon 00:04
If you look you can just see
This is where the rib has healed after a break - Attenborough and the Sea Dragon 00:07
This is where the rib has healed after a break
This animal's had a little bit of a bad start in life. - Attenborough and the Sea Dragon 00:04
This animal's had a little bit of a bad start in life.
-MOORE: Yes. -MARTILL: If you look down here - Attenborough and the Sea Dragon 00:05
-MOORE: Yes. -MARTILL: If you look down here
This fracture here mirrors that fracture there - Attenborough and the Sea Dragon 00:11
This fracture here mirrors that fracture there
Something has actually crushed this rib cage. - Attenborough and the Sea Dragon 00:05
Something has actually crushed this rib cage.
So look here at these neural spines - - Attenborough and the Sea Dragon 00:13
So look here at these neural spines -
So there to there is damaged, - Attenborough and the Sea Dragon 00:11
So there to there is damaged,
So I think there's a bite which goes right across here. - Attenborough and the Sea Dragon 00:05
So I think there's a bite which goes right across here.
That probably reflects - Attenborough and the Sea Dragon 00:06
That probably reflects
There was a massive bite; it caused catastrophic injury, - Attenborough and the Sea Dragon 00:07
There was a massive bite; it caused catastrophic injury,
This was an air-breathing marine animal - Attenborough and the Sea Dragon 00:09
This was an air-breathing marine animal
It can't breathe and also it's going to sink - Attenborough and the Sea Dragon 00:05
It can't breathe and also it's going to sink
It's quite likely that the animal that killed this animal, - Attenborough and the Sea Dragon 00:09
It's quite likely that the animal that killed this anim...
MARTILL: So this probably all took place in the surface water. - Attenborough and the Sea Dragon 00:04
MARTILL: So this probably all took place in the surface wate...
But as soon as it had done this injury, this thing just sank - Attenborough and the Sea Dragon 00:10
But as soon as it had done this injury, this thing just sank
ATTENBOROUGH: So it looks as if Chris's attack theory might be right. - Attenborough and the Sea Dragon 00:06
ATTENBOROUGH: So it looks as if Chris's attack theory m...