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Attenborough and the Sea Dragon

As an air-breathing creature, our ichthyosaur would have hadto spend much time near the...

As an air-breathing creature, our ichthyosaur would have had
to spend much time near the surface,
so counter-shading could have been a benefit
for that reason as well

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As an air-breathing creature,
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our ichthyosaur would have had to spend much time
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near the surface, so counter-shading
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could have been a benefit for that reason as well.
Duration
12 seconds
Views
26
Timestamp in Movie
00:40:19
Uploaded
Jun 28, 2025
Genres
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.