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Attenborough and the Sea Dragon

??♪ But we know, from their fossils,that ichthyosaur tails were flattened vertically,like...

��♪ But we know, from their fossils,
that ichthyosaur tails were flattened vertically,
like those of sharks, so they must've swum
in the same sort of way: by sweeping their tails
from side to side

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But we know, from their fossils, that ichthyosaur tails
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were flattened vertically, like those of sharks,
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so they must've swum in the same sort of way:
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by sweeping their tails from side to side.
Duration
15 seconds
Views
22
Timestamp in Movie
00:16:58
Uploaded
Jun 29, 2025
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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.