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Attenborough and the Sea Dragon

I started looking for fossilswhen I was a boy and I've never lost the feelingof excitement...

I started looking for fossils
when I was a boy and I've never lost the feeling
of excitement and anticipation of what one might discover

Full Transcript

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I started looking for fossils when I was a boy
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and I've never lost the feeling of excitement and anticipation
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of what one might discover.
Duration
10 seconds
Views
27
Timestamp in Movie
00:02:46
Uploaded
Jun 29, 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.
The commonest fossils here are coiled shells called ammonites - Attenborough and the Sea Dragon 00:08
The commonest fossils here are coiled shells called ammonite...
There's one here on this boulder. - Attenborough and the Sea Dragon 00:04
There's one here on this boulder.
You can see the whorls there, - Attenborough and the Sea Dragon 00:06
You can see the whorls there,
But sometimes, if you're lucky, you can find nodules like this - Attenborough and the Sea Dragon 00:13
But sometimes, if you're lucky, you can find nodules li...
If I hit it, it should... - Attenborough and the Sea Dragon 00:05
If I hit it, it should...
[ Laughing ] - Attenborough and the Sea Dragon 00:04
[ Laughing ]
[ Laughing ] - Attenborough and the Sea Dragon 00:05
[ Laughing ]
[ Whimsical tune plays ] - Attenborough and the Sea Dragon 00:21
[ Whimsical tune plays ]
Chris Moore has been collecting fossils here - Attenborough and the Sea Dragon 00:07
Chris Moore has been collecting fossils here
Recently, he came across a boulder - Attenborough and the Sea Dragon 00:08
Recently, he came across a boulder
Back in his workshop, he exposed a mosaic - Attenborough and the Sea Dragon 00:14
Back in his workshop, he exposed a mosaic
But they were unlike any he had ever seen before. - Attenborough and the Sea Dragon 00:05
But they were unlike any he had ever seen before.
i-still-collect-fossils - Attenborough and the Sea Dragon 00:14
i-still-collect-fossils
I even have the remains of an ichthyosaur, - Attenborough and the Sea Dragon 00:08
I even have the remains of an ichthyosaur,
This was collected by Chris about 10 years ago in Dorset. - Attenborough and the Sea Dragon 00:06
This was collected by Chris about 10 years ago in Dorset.
It's got jaws and it's got teeth and it's got paddles. - Attenborough and the Sea Dragon 00:07
It's got jaws and it's got teeth and it's got...
And Dorset was the very first place - Attenborough and the Sea Dragon 00:09
And Dorset was the very first place
This is a picture of it, - Attenborough and the Sea Dragon 00:09
This is a picture of it,
People thought it was some kind of monster, - Attenborough and the Sea Dragon 00:06
People thought it was some kind of monster,
They thought it was a kind of cross - Attenborough and the Sea Dragon 00:21
They thought it was a kind of cross