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Attenborough and the Sea Dragon

This is where the rib has healedafter a break and the animal's gone onto live another day

This is where the rib has healed
after a break and the animal's gone on
to live another day

Full Transcript

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This is where the rib has healed after a break
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and the animal's gone on to live another day.
Duration
7 seconds
Views
27
Timestamp in Movie
00:26:50
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.
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
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.