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Attenborough and the Sea Dragon

Something has actuallycrushed this rib cage

Something has actually
crushed this rib cage

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Something has actually crushed this rib cage.
Duration
5 seconds
Views
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Timestamp in Movie
00:27:13
Uploaded
Jun 28, 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.
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
ATTENBOROUGH: So it looks as if Chris's attack theory might be right. - Attenborough and the Sea Dragon 00:06
ATTENBOROUGH: So it looks as if Chris's attack theory m...
But what type of creature could possibly have inflicted - Attenborough and the Sea Dragon 00:08
But what type of creature could possibly have inflicted
A rather unusual fossil in Chris's collection - Attenborough and the Sea Dragon 00:06
A rather unusual fossil in Chris's collection
This is fossilized ichthyosaur droppings - Attenborough and the Sea Dragon 00:16
This is fossilized ichthyosaur droppings
So that shows that ichthyosaurs were fish eaters, - Attenborough and the Sea Dragon 00:07
So that shows that ichthyosaurs were fish eaters,
This one is even more interesting. - Attenborough and the Sea Dragon 00:04
This one is even more interesting.
Because in this piece of dung - Attenborough and the Sea Dragon 00:15
Because in this piece of dung
It ate other ichthyosaur species. - Attenborough and the Sea Dragon 00:05
It ate other ichthyosaur species.
Could it be that our dragon was killed by one of its own kind? - Attenborough and the Sea Dragon 00:06
Could it be that our dragon was killed by one of its own kin...
To find out more, - Attenborough and the Sea Dragon 00:07
To find out more,