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MOORE: Yeah. -MAVROGORDATO: We're going
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Attenborough and the Sea Dragon

Yeah. We're going to do more multiple scansdown the specimen and build it all back...

MOORE: Yeah.
-MAVROGORDATO: We're going to do more multiple scans
down the specimen and build it all back together
into a three-dimensional volume

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MOORE: Yeah. -MAVROGORDATO: We're going
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to do more multiple scans down the specimen
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and build it all back together into a three-dimensional volume.
Duration
8 seconds
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32
Timestamp in Movie
00:13:05
Uploaded
Jun 29, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
BBC

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Sir David Attenborough investigates the discovery of a 200 million year old Ichthyosaur on the Jurassic Coast in southern England.
ATTENBOROUGH: The scans of the paddles are sent to Bristol University. - Attenborough and the Sea Dragon 00:06
ATTENBOROUGH: The scans of the paddles are sent to Bristol U...
Here, scientists can isolate the image of each bone - Attenborough and the Sea Dragon 00:10
Here, scientists can isolate the image of each bone
of-these-paddles-and-ive-come-find-out-why - Attenborough and the Sea Dragon 00:12
of-these-paddles-and-ive-come-find-out-why
MOON: We've got a complete paddle here, - Attenborough and the Sea Dragon 00:10
MOON: We've got a complete paddle here,
We can actually start using this paddle - Attenborough and the Sea Dragon 00:06
We can actually start using this paddle
Because of the size of the paddle - Attenborough and the Sea Dragon 00:10
Because of the size of the paddle
ATTENBOROUGH: We won't know for sure until we find the rest of the body. - Attenborough and the Sea Dragon 00:05
ATTENBOROUGH: We won't know for sure until we find the ...
But can the paddles tell us something about the way - Attenborough and the Sea Dragon 00:06
But can the paddles tell us something about the way
MOON: There are a lot of bones in this paddle, - Attenborough and the Sea Dragon 00:08
MOON: There are a lot of bones in this paddle,
ATTENBOROUGH: There would've been cartilage around that, wouldn't there, - Attenborough and the Sea Dragon 00:04
ATTENBOROUGH: There would've been cartilage around that...
All of the gaps between the bones - Attenborough and the Sea Dragon 00:12
All of the gaps between the bones
attenborough-could-fold-them-in-to-the-side - Attenborough and the Sea Dragon 00:05
attenborough-could-fold-them-in-to-the-side
Looking at the muscles and where they attach, - Attenborough and the Sea Dragon 00:10
Looking at the muscles and where they attach,
uses-its-paddles - Attenborough and the Sea Dragon 00:15
uses-its-paddles
That animal usually lives in tropical waters, - Attenborough and the Sea Dragon 00:06
That animal usually lives in tropical waters,
they-wouldve-been-in-jurassic-times-around-britain - Attenborough and the Sea Dragon 00:10
they-wouldve-been-in-jurassic-times-around-britain
And the animal in question - Attenborough and the Sea Dragon 00:06
And the animal in question
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