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Attenborough and the Sea Dragon

So, at every opportunityhe scours the area where the first block was found

So, at every opportunity
he scours the area where the first block was found

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So, at every opportunity he scours the area
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where the first block was found.
Duration
7 seconds
Views
30
Timestamp in Movie
00:25:54
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.
and-perhaps-revealed-the-rocks-beneath - Attenborough and the Sea Dragon 00:13
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in-pre-historic-animals - Attenborough and the Sea Dragon 00:20
in-pre-historic-animals
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