Colossal sea monster unearthed in UK - BBC News

[@abdiver12]

My God, I'm a fisherman in California and I've just realized that I sold a huge squid beak to Steve Etches several years ago! He contacted me one day through my online ad saying he wanted one for his museum. I had totally forgotten his name until I saw this report. So honored to have one of my specimens on display in his collection to be viewed by (hopefully) many generations to come.

[@Summersimmie]

That is so cool! Well-done, good sir!

[@doctorpsylus]

Saw one in a documentary jesus that thing is lethal its a perfect killing machine & this was a Juvenile washed up in mexico around 44 feet , the adults tentacles would be around 120 feet :o

[@staygold2563]

Go back to feeding raccoons liar

[@doomjuice.1652]

Everything is bs apparently

[@TheEtchesCollection]

That beak sits proudly in the reserve collection here and is amazing reference material for comparing to the ancient squid like animals we find here!

[@ignis4026]

It's both amazing and terrifying to think about the creatures that once roamed our land, sea, and sky. The idea still gives me shivers.

[@OReily08080]

Today's bird are scary enough, but imagine having Quetzalcoatlus

[@JordanWheeler1999]

@@OReily08080 birds to me aren't dino related lizards are. if a bird really is related to dino creatures then it will look like an Pterodactyls but isn't.

[@Fantallana]

@@JordanWheeler1999birds are literally dinosaurs. Scientifically. They are direct decadents of ancient dinosaurs. Lizards, dinosaurs, pterosaurs, crocodiles, and plesiosaurs are separate lineages from each other. But of course they share a common ancestor if you go back far enough, as all animals do.

[@OReily08080]

@@JordanWheeler1999 Pterodactyls, that was the name I was looking for

[@difinical6327]

im sure if they did still exist the government would kill them off or lock them up cause those things are actual real life monster shit

[@Tboe905]

Thats looks like what a "Dragon"skull would look like. Thats awesome

[@TheRandompaint]

It's probably skulls like this that created the myth in the first place

[@FlyVader]

Yoooo,, Skyrim: Elder scrolls 😂😂😂😂

[@ericmaumaryjr8344]

It is a dragon.. dinosaur wasn't a word until the mid 19th century... Dragons lived with humans.. every culture around the world tells us. Myth is a word used by pretentious darwinian evolutionists

[@melanie71]

Exactly 🤔

[@springbok4015]

Now you know where the idea for dragons came from

[@brokencigarette3017]

David Attenborough almost 100 and still doing his thing. The man is a legend.

[@anarchy_79]

Feels like an understatement...

[@PapaJoJ]

mad respect, yo.

[@kevinparker461]

Look into his early days, the mans a chancer!!!. Dr Patrick Moore called him out on some B.S he spouted, Attenborough ignored him so Dr Moore straight out called him & liar!, & he was. I then researched Attenborough & what i found i really don't like!!. A major deceiver & liar!!. Shame, i grew up on Attenborough TV shows on the BBC, & the BBC should tell you something!!

[@robwalsh9843]

Pliosaurs were simply some of the most terrifying animals to ever live. Real sea dragons. Encountering one in open water must have been an experience equal parts terrifying, majestic......and final.

[@ItsJustKaya]

Gyrados but everyone swims like those mf dont exist. Fending themself with their luvdisc

[@dochudson9393]

​​@@ItsJustKayaNuts that these things evolve from little Magikarps

[@rollinsomethingbutiforgot]

Looks like a dinosaur to me

[@SpinosaurusTheProudSocialist]

​​​@@rollinsomethingbutiforgotActually Pliosaurs were much more closely related to turtles. Dinosaurs have a different evolutionary lineage, modern birds being the only living members of said lineage, and crocodiles being their closest living relatives, followed be turtles. So they were related to Dinosaurs but very distantly so. Probably about as distantly related as a human is to a lemur let's say.

[@dochudson9393]

@@SpinosaurusTheProudSocialist Actually, Pliosaurs are very closely related to Dinosaurs in that they both now rest ... in ... peace

[@Tigerfan50]

Wonderful to see Sir David Attenborough still active! Bless you!

[@lise1255]

97 yo and still rocking the boat literally.

[@robertgreen5217]

A globalist bumhole

[@raoulduke7668]

buzz word without any meaning@@robertgreen5217

[@mikkolukas]

he's a dinos ... oh, I'll see myself out 😆

[@horatio59]

a globalist pushing dodgy agendas

[@GameOver1a]

If this was how terrifying life looked like millions of years ago on earth, Imagine whats out there in the universe in different shapes and forms. Absolutely fascinating

[@mandalorian1282]

Extremely unlikely.

[@Huevo_dorado]

??

[@craaab____721]

we don't know that for sure, there could be other lifeforms out there, we just need to look. probably not in our lifetimes though, interstellar travel is a huge leap in space travel@@mandalorian1282

[@r.sakarollsafe1285]

still to this day, zero life have been discovered outside earth. Earth, was not born with atmosphere and wildlife on it's surface. It takes billion of years, the right combination of reaction and certainly luck to form Earth of what it is today. We may not be alone, but certainly with a billion light year radius, we are. Its like living in the dessert by yourself. You know there's people, but ultimately, you are truly alone. you can walk naked, visit neighboring canyon like that and still be alone. That is what earth is today. Just waiting for a child to be born from the other continent, to come and visit you someday, or the other way around.

[@r.sakarollsafe1285]

@@craaab____721 granted that humans do not destroy each other and most importantly the sphere we are standing on first. The way I see it, we be happy enough to advance in the next 100 years before nuclear world war erupted. It takes a great man to hold a great responsibility, and the holiest man to carry it through responsibly. Have you met such people on top of each country with that criteria?

[@tigerclaw4537]

Seeing the upward facing side teeth really places this Sea Monster in the terrifying category. Nothing would escape from that ripsaw.

[@richardlee5412]

Paleontologists dream find, I don't think this short story can adequately cover the magnitude of how incredible this discovery was and how serious Steve Etches is when he says he could spend the rest of his life with this fossil

[@tedcrilly46]

Romantically?

[@MrFas__]

​@@tedcrilly46🤦‍♂️😂

[@TheEtchesCollection]

Fortunately 'Attenborough and the Giant Sea Monster' will tell more of the story! And if you want to learn even more it will be on display here in the New Year!

[@anothermouth7077]

That's always the tragedy isn't. The general public doesn't understand the magnitude unless Sir Attenborough explains it to us.

[@Vigilante80085]

seriously!

[@MeezMiah]

David Attenborough is one of the few people on the planet that can show up instantly to anything and always be welcomed by everyone

[@DaUnicorn]

& Betty White. God Rest Her Soul

[@AlahuSnackbar]

I wonder how a pliosaur would react seeing our Sir swimming in the open water...

[@Callumaroo]

And he says mother and baby safe. For now....

[@nathanchung27]

@@DaUnicorn rip queen 😔👊🏽

[@outsidethepyramid]

David Attenborough, an ancient fossil on the beach

[@lise1255]

Beside the big fossil, let's not forget to admire the smaller one, the amazing 97 year old Sir David, still standing tall, rocking the boat telling us about it😮!.

[@vandolmatzis8146]

🤣🤣

[@fantasip]

😅 🎯👌

[@johnrice4191]

Blokes a hypocrite.....fact...

[@user-ch6ti5cc2e]

rest in peace (for next year)

[@oliyes406]

A fossil telling us about his fallen comrades

[@That1CommentGuy]

in my mind, this is waiting for me at the bottom of every pool if I jump in by myself.

[@mpista7182]

Early sailors may have found things like this and imagined sea monsters were still alive in the oceans. Thiis is amazing !!

[@thenewcamelot8873]

Plenty of monsters still down there

[@jonnynice8366]

That's cute, you think there are no sea monsters living in the oceans today.

[@trina-bd7qz]

@@jonnynice8366only 5% of the ocean has been discovered it’s creatures and fishes we have never seen before

[@jonnynice8366]

@@trina-bd7qz We probably know about most creatures that live in the oceans, but there are some rarely seen giants like the colossal squid that are at least as scary and impressive as pliosaurs were.

[@mpista7182]

I never wrote that. Have a cow already !lol@@jonnynice8366

[@khrawkupar]

Glad to see Sir David Attenborough healthy and still contributing to the world of documentaries.. I was some how emotional seeing him in this video🙏

[@TheEtchesCollection]

He was so excitied by the find! We were so grateful he came and joined out team for this amazing experience.

[@Yinyankstank]

Gay

[@mrartdeco]

I hope he is secretly immortal so we can enjoy his commentary until we are old and dying

[@kenzog5428]

He's 97, Yet he was saying there are too many humans on earth and we need less population.

[@XperT650]

@@Yinyankstankweird place to come out, but congrats bro

[@allthingslexi6046]

For a fossil preserved in the Earth for that long, it sure does look amazing !

[@LilRichNigga24]

Kinda unreal right 😉

[@Aiden-zl4ht]

I'm willing to bet it's not as old as they think it is.

[@nicholaswooten5579]

@@Aiden-zl4htwhy?

[@Aiden-zl4ht]

@@nicholaswooten5579 carbon dating has been determined faulty many times. You can Google it, if you wanna find out more! Interesting stuff.

[@johnford9070]

@@nicholaswooten5579cuz how tf does anybody know if earths 1508 million Gillion years old. Sounds like a made up number. No way to verify anything is that old. Probably like 15k years old

[@Absentiment4l]

What a true Leviathan!

[@thorium222]

Wow, really amazing how well the skull is preserved! The teeth look amazing, I hope they find the whole fossilized pliosaur.

[@dougaltolan3017]

It lived before refined sugar...

[@christdiedforoursins1467]

​@@dougaltolan3017it never lived it's just a sculptors art , it's from a cast ,as you saw the rock on the beach that was" broken off "was not like the sculpture you saw the man unveil.

[@sweetwillow]

@@christdiedforoursins1467 nah check out what he says at 1:11 the piece found on the beach was just a piece of it, they found the rest in the rock 👍 I know, kinda unbelievable.

[@dannythegreat453]

Fake

[@dougaltolan3017]

@@christdiedforoursins1467 and the rock on the beach was what? Exactly?

[@feartheoldblood]

That's no ocean monster, it's a damn dragon

[@Rob-z7k]

It is a damn dragon! Now this is something that should be cloned!

[@CYBERSECURITY.101]

The Jurassic Coast is known for its rich fossil record, and this discovery is certainly significant

[@Unkn0wn1133]

I never would have guessed that, thanks

[@Dragon-Slay3r]

It's ok Ile put that container in the Greek fridge they can sort it out 😂

[@beanbag9696]

Captain obvious

[@gingerseanie]

It’s also known for being the most boring place on earth

[@CYBERSECURITY.101]

@@life_so_hard_i_so_emo Interesting.. What is his instagram?

[@onecookieboy]

And that is how legends of Dragons came to be. Imagine finding something like that hundreds of years ago, how else would it be explained?

[@marco3dartist]

Dragons as described by so many cultures could have very well existed. Especially if their bones were hollow like bird bones. This would make finding fossils exceedingly difficult.

[@onecookieboy]

@@marco3dartist Yeah, not really, there is plenty of evidence that very big pterosaur's existed, some were as big as a small aeroplane (Quetzalcoatlus, with a 10 meter wingspan and weighing up to 250Kg), but actual Dragon's, breathing fire etc seems a bit of a stretch. I can easily understand people discovering the fossilised remains of something like this creature and building some sort of narrative around what sort of creature it was. All they would have known is that it was very big, had lots of big teeth and perhaps they thought the flippers were wings, they would never have seen a fish even remotely like it so thought it must have come from the sky. So yes, Dragon.

[@ElonMasks]

And the people back then will just randomly say "And we'll call this one a Dragon"

[@DaveyJones-cj4xg]

Have a look at a mammoth skull if you want to see where the myth of the cyclops likely came from.

[@ThisHandleFeatureIsStupid]

I sure as shit wouldn't be quick to assume it was extinct! 👀 Can't blame em.

[@snappercharters]

Was great to be a part of this project! Hosting Sir David Attenborough on our boat, Snapper Charters was a real career highlight!

[@centurymemes1208]

Impressive

[@kjamesjr]

Where was the fossil found?

[@lukejewell7370]

Location ?

[@AmusedPassport-ec1lv]

At least the taxi guy didn't chime in

[@massimatrix18xd62]

@@kjamesjr which one?

[@spencertwoeightyz3383]

im sure people have been finding fossils for thousands of years. it is not hard to imagine how people believed in sea monsters and dragons.

[@coweatsman]

The legend of the Cyclops is thought to have arisen from a mammoth skull, the nasal opening being mistaken for an eye socket.

[@Ranstone]

@@coweatsman But have you heard of the legend of Darth Plagueis the wise?

[@mr.constitution]

​@@Ranstonelol

[@joshfread1081]

@@Ranstone It's not one a Jedi would tell you

[@johno1544]

Had to be the origin for some myths. I remember reading about a four legged beaked dinosaur that has its fossils found in the same location as the Griffin myth origin location. Uncanny resemblance

[@Maikologi]

that is the stuff of nightmares. I could not imagine seeing that in the water with me.

[@AnzuMiruku]

What a beautiful specimen. Our Earth is more fascinating than any fantasy novel. Sometimes I can’t believe the creatures we share this planet with, both now and in the distant past. I’m so lucky I’m here to be a part of all of it!

[@giantslayer473]

Well said. If we could see what remains are lying, preserved just beneath our feet, in the ocean floors.

[@stuartwray6175]

Lucky to be a part of it, but not prey to it.

[@EmeraldLavigne]

​@stuartwray6175 it's dead and I'm alive, so who won that one??? *SCOREBOARD!*

[@johncane2304]

Billion years of earth

[@uchihaaxel5214]

its not beautiful dude. if it was alive it would be massacring other sea creatures and even human

[@jaimeisreal]

Yes, that is an amazing piece of history and a magnificent animal indeed. But guys? Sir David Attenborough is 97 years old! And he's on a swaying boat that makes most YOUNG people seasick. It is Sir David Attenborough that is the true beast of nature here folks. Seriously.

[@lockester2799]

David Attenborough is a true beast of nature, that guy must be the peak human form

[@TheEtchesCollection]

He is amazing! He was so excited by this project and it was great to work with him!

[@Pluralofvinylisvinyls]

You won’t be thrown in a dungeon for failing to say “sir”, you know

[@jaimeisreal]

@@Pluralofvinylisvinyls I give max respect to someone whom earned max respect. That is my way of showing I respect him. How do you show your respect to people who have earned it? Tell us.

[@damientorres1066]

No one cares.

[@stephanieyee9784]

I am in awe of this find. Having spent a few hours wandering along beaches on the Jurassic Coast I can imagine how excited the man who discovered this must have been. Fantastic find and a beautiful specimen.

[@flyagaric007]

im wondering if you find something like this would they pay you for that?

[@s..a893]

@@flyagaric007that’s what I was thinking. If I were a fossil enthusiast like that chap, I’d have just kept it

[@flyagaric007]

@@s..a893 yea but you need skills,tools and a lot of time to uncover it from the stone.

[@s..a893]

@@flyagaric007 yh, that's true

[@MsKJackson831]

​@@flyagaric007He had a good chunk there though without having to dig in the stone. He could have kept that. I wonder if they paid him for his portion?

[@CRAFTKEV]

I wonder if this is a Pliosaurus Funkei or a Pliosaurus Kevani

[@nj1255]

That's insanely detailed and remarkably intact! I can't even imagine being the guy who found that initial part. Imagine just walking around on a beach one day and find a big ass rock with teeth the size of your hand!

[@nahbruv3621]

what's your threshold for bs it's a faux painted model no museum pieces are actual dinosaur bones. those are hidden away. this is why it's so suspect

[@JAYDZLive]

@@PallasAthenian yeah, i hate to be one of those conspiracy guys but 2 years in an art school tells me it looks like its made from clay

[@nj1255]

@@PallasAthenian It is? I don't have much knowledge about archeology and how fossils look when you find them so.

[@GR-dw9nm]

@@nj1255 It's a sculpted rendering based off the fossil. You would never bare handed touch a fossil like he did. It's a cast to show what the full skull would have looked like. You can see what the actual fossil looked like in the computer scan they showed.

[@aimliard2276]

​@@PallasAthenian😂 so f dumb it's a 3d part representation of what it was. It's almond impossible to get a fossil with that pristine quality

[@alexc.c.4025]

At a T-Rex exhibition a few years ago I learned that many/most dinosaurs skeletons we know today have being assembled from just a few remains from each specimen but never from a complete one. The rest is a guess game comparing other bones to similar specimen. We had the opportunity to see the most intact T-Rex skeleton ever found so far named Trix. This particular one was found 2013 in Montana US by a Dutch team & it's almost 80% complete. T-Rex can only be found in 2 places Asia & north America. And as many suggest today dinosaurs may had fur and wings and not only scales or reptile skin. 😄

[@Scientist_Salarian]

Very true. Additionally, soft tissue isn’t preserved in the fossil record. Skin, muscle structure and cartilage are as responsible for an animal’s shape as its skeleton. Even with a full skeleton it would be impossible to accurately determine how dinosaurs truly looked.

[@LoveMaskedBandits]

I saw SUE the T-Rex at the Field Museum in Chicago some years ago. Her skull weighs so much, it's in a separate enclosed case on the second floor. Check out the (very sad) truth of the team who found and excavated her in a documentary called Dinosaur 13.

[@royc9357]

Lots of people forget about the human skeleton and how it’s evolved over time - most of the evidence is just theoretical and very few human figures actually exist ( let’s say roughly 12,000 years ago ) In the 1800’s big rewards were offered to prove human evolution and lots of bones were mixed and matched for the rewards. It’s only recent analysis off the human fossils showed some skeletons mixed with baboon bones to make up the evidence. All the fossil evidence for human evolution would fit into a small lunchbox- Sorry I have to be careful how much more I say 😂

[@checktheskies5040]

Sasquatch?

[@E.C.Animation]

Dragons. Dragon is an ancient word with references to their kind across the world in many cultures. Dinosaur is a modern word for these random bones found with, like the op said, only a few to go by and the rest are guess work. Dragons were real.

[@kallethoren]

"The exact location where the pliosaurs head was found is a closely guarded secret". Just by showing the footage of the coast, rainbolt could easily figure it out 😅

[@jenlovesjesus]

This is fascinating.

[@buggalujuju]

I imagine ancient and medieval people finding fossils like this and believing dragons were roaming the earth! This skull seriously looks like a dragon skull! Amazing!

[@Electricdirtbikes21]

Definitely man just crazy our world so many thoughts and questions I really do wonder what they thought of the galaxy u could see at night to the ufos to like u said the fossils and so much more truly a crazy life our ancestors lived

[@Electricdirtbikes21]

That kind of sucks that all this was underwater that's the only reason why I was so well maintained

[@dragonfarm2texas518]

Philip Jacobs should have gotten full credit for his find...

[@thetwitchywitchy]

Please keep David Attenborough safe, he’s a treasure

[@AbdelghaniBenzinoun]

Hello

[@anarchy_79]

We are all keeping him safe by keeping him in our rosy little hearts.

[@Jeff-mn1uq]

He doesn't feel the same about you. "Humans are a disease", and he certainly wasn't talking about the elites.

[@Future-Classic-Cars]

Safe how? Wtf are you talking about.

[@Future-Classic-Cars]

​@@anarchy_79What in the name of wome snowflakes are you on about!

[@xzak3]

Sometimes i forget BBC puts out a good piece once in while.

[@leeturton9254]

Reject and ridicule their conditioning....

[@lockester2799]

To the people talking about the inaccuracies of the dates: Pliosauroidea the clade, lived from the late jurassic (150 - 145 Million Years Ago) up until the late cretaceous (75 Million Years Ago). They are not referring to the specimens age but the clades age.

[@SotonSam]

The amount of human and natural history in the UK is mind blowing ❤️🇬🇧

[@tobleramone]

It's a sea creature.

[@frankklein4872]

UK territorial water you leftie

[@jamesmaybrick2001]

@@tobleramone Obviously. Thats not what he said. Human AND natural history.

[@julianshepherd2038]

Sunak wants to deport it.

[@SotonSam]

@@jamesmaybrick2001 yeah thank you.

[@pip393]

The level of detail and completeness is astounding.

[@JohnfromCro7]

Because it's not 75 million years old. Its probably 5000 years old

[@zethloveless7238]

@@JohnfromCro7stop dreaming

[@StudioMod]

@@JohnfromCro7 I believe 150 millions years ago actually.

[@orbytl2799]

@@JohnfromCro7 it is kinda funny how civilisations a few thousand years old talk of dragons and such where did they get their inspiration from for such beasts that closely resemble these kind of creatures we are unearthing today? the first recorded dinosaur unearthing in history wasnt until the 17th century these ancient civilisations must have come across things in the earth beforehand, either that or they encountered such beasts 😁

[@Ghostface4k]

Please don't have a strong opinion over things you have no clue about... It's a huge sign of idiocy and you're only embarrassing yourself.@@JohnfromCro7

[@JohnnyInvictus]

You say tomato,I say tomahtoe,you say dinosaur,I say DRAGON

[@bonniemob65]

It's not a dinosaur (due to the lack of antornital fenestrae and the presence of a parietal foramen), and it's definitely not a dragon (since those don't exist). It's a pliosauroid, meaning it's more closely related to turtles than to any other reptiles.

[@bigchief939]

Holy cow they found nessy

[@lise1255]

My reaction too😂

[@CrashSomeMore]

Nessiesaurus.😀

[@bedjrocks5550]

It's dinosaur it's not cow🙄

[@MrWeedWacky]

@@bedjrocks5550 Nessy -- Loch Ness Monster... 🙄🙄

[@Kappkumber]

@@bedjrocks5550it’s neither a dinosaur or a cow.

[@polygonalmasonary]

I agree, Cliff is eroding fast, but none of us are getting any younger 😅

[@tonycritcher3419]

I agree, not even The Young Ones!

[@seannolan8615]

Now I'm a believer.

[@finosuilleabhain7781]

Beyond a shadow of a doubt.

[@yeahokno]

The word dinosaur was invented in 1841, before that we called them dragons.

[@ermagerd101]

Exactly. Most of us can't even trace our own ancestors before 1600, yet we can tell a story about how reptiles lived tens of millions of years ago. 🤣

[@b1nary_f1nary]

@@ermagerd101 You just saw giant bones be dug out of massive stone cliff edge. How could it be burried so deep in solid stone if didn't go down there an extremely long time ago?

[@ermagerd101]

I don't doubt that at all. My comment was regarding 'experts' who claim to know everything about the ancient animal when humans can't even trace their own families pre 1600ad.@@b1nary_f1nary

[@3Zclap]

i watched this without a licence 💀

[@ianjones7294]

It's interesting to think such amazing creatures once lived in the oceans and on the lands. The earth has a fascinating history. I must admit, I'm glad most of them are extinct though, ha ha. Also a fun fact: We live closer in time to the T-Rex than the T-Rex did to the Stegosaurus. Stegosaurus had already been extinct for 80 million years before the T-Rex appeared. Humans have only been around for 300,000 years!

[@timeless1922]

Cymru am byth!

[@dndkillaztreble5317]

Hi ian could you explain to me how carbon dating is accurate when theirs been multiple teams that have sent of bones to different labs and have had results from 3 thousand years and tens of millions from a different lab.

[@davidlittle7418]

Hmm yes & unless we get our shit together, the clock is definitely ticking on our stupid species.

[@garyk1334]

​@@dndkillaztreble5317Can you make sure no young earth creationists were involved

[@mdgcwood]

What the heck?

[@TaylorHarvey-hy1ph]

here we go bbc team link in bio 🎉🎉

[@silverlve70]

That fossil is absolutely amazing!

[@leeturton9254]

That beast looked incredibly fearsome even as fossil god knows what it looked like in life.... the tyrannosaurus of the seas

[@charlesbrown4483]

And still has a better head of teeth than all UK residents😂😂😂😂😂

[@toa9329]

Nice meme

[@Nxck2440]

😂😂

[@lyrand6408]

This reminds me a bit of that incredible Ankylosaur fossil that was basically perfectly preserved (pretty much the whole body, not just the head). And to think that fossilization in and of itself is already a very rare thing to start with, and then to have a fossil like this, is indeed incredible. I can't recall the statistic on this but fossilization is a process that occurs only something like 5% of the time any living animal dies, maybe less. Even if we were to unearth ALL the fossils from the crust of our planet today, it would only represent a very small fraction of all the possible animal species - that quite possibly - we'll never know about because it's possible that not a single specimen went through a 'successful' fossilization process.

[@ELEM922]

Ll

[@stxticnathan6627]

It was nodasaur

[@YomamaYodaddyYobjtchassGranny]

Exactly, I like to believe the hollow bone theory for the reasoning of No dragon Fossils found and also applies to most pre-historic Birds

[@stxticnathan6627]

@@YomamaYodaddyYobjtchassGranny the theory of dragons is stupid, what defines a dragon because we have found things that could technically be called dragons all ready, but anything the size of stuff in legend just wouldn't be able to fly

[@YomamaYodaddyYobjtchassGranny]

@@stxticnathan6627I never said they had wings and your ignorance is hilarious by the way assuming I believe they flew. They clearly didn’t fly a “dragon” was most likely just a giant Reptile. It’s been proven that reptiles and other creatures and cause a chemical reaction with gas and spit that causes a combustion of flames, “dragons” could’ve been non flying reptiles who were just massive and could cause chemical combustion which led to the popular myth of dragons so people would steer clear. But apparently you’re not open minded just an ignorant person who was rude in a reply 😂😂😂😂 move along 🤡

[@johno1544]

Amazingly well preserved for a skull that big. Most of the time they are crushed to pieces and some of the pieces are just gone

[@TheEtchesCollection]

It is amazing and we are very fortunate it was all together, ocean movements and scavaging often seperate the bones and as you said often they are crushed flat. There has been a little bit of crushing with this specimen but it's almost lifelike.

[@mpkid5]

thats not a real skull. thats a reproduction man made model. they dont have teeth like that you can obviously tell its not real bone or teeth

[@johno1544]

​@@mpkid5you dont know what you are talking about and apparently didnt watch the video. I personally own several aquatic reptile teeth including Mosasaurus and they absolutely can look like that

[@mpkid5]

@johno1544 that is not real teeth and not how the teeth of that dinosaur looks. Fossilized teeth do not look like that either. That is not a natural tooth shape, you can see the edges are carved into straight angles. Even their 3d image doesnt show that. Its sculpted for visual appeal. Its a sculpture based on a fossil but it is not accurate

[@johno1544]

@@mpkid5 kid you dont know what your talking about first off that's not a dinosaur but a aquatic reptile and if you dont know the difference I'm not wasting my time explaining anything else to you

[@RAWMUSICTV]

Disappointing that this BBC presenter didn't flip everyone off before going into the story.

[@Vibez369]

It's the BBC. no-one really pays attention to ped o enablers.

[@matthewwilliams3827]

I know right…

[@peterbarton9856]

@@Vibez369 Your commie Chinese masters are displeased with your efforts. Try harder

[@liamtaylor849]

What a fantastic find! I really hope we get to see a full skeleton of this epic predator preserved in that cliff!

[@grafito4438]

It ain't collosial without David Attenborough - he really adds presence to it.

[@stuartellis7436]

I love how the man talks about it like he knows everything about it.😂

[@TheGrayGhost92]

Pliosaurs like Predator X and Lipleurodon ruled the Jurassic oceans and were said to have gone extinct 145 million years ago. During the Jurassic period, there were few species of giant predators in the oceans. But the Cretaceous didn’t have the Pliosaurs. The early Cretaceous had a surviving strain of the giant Pliosaurs known as Kronosaurus. The oceans then had sea monsters that looked like giant serpents called mosasaurs. In the Cretaceous period, the oceans were nicknamed: Hell’s Aquarium. Because there wasn’t one species of super predator, there was a whole sweet of them. Sharks, Giant predatory fish like Xiphactinus, plesiosaurs, 60ft Mosasaurs.

[@AmusedPassport-ec1lv]

Nerd

[@AJzilllaPro]

@@AmusedPassport-ec1lvwhy? He’s contributing to the discussion.

[@kevbee8325]

What a beautifully preserved fossilised specimen of a pliosaur skull.

[@livingmybestlife5634]

I ❤ David Attenborough Documentaries!!!! Hes One of the BEST Documentary narrators of our time imo !! Thank You David Attenborough!!! 🌍🐳🐟🦑🪼🦋

[@jcclarkeru]

No wonder they thought they were seeing dragons in the skies hundreds of years ago. This was not the first pliosaur skull found in England.

[@willcookmakeup]

Omg. Those teeth are longer than his whole hand...could you imagine being attacked by that thing back when it was alive. Truly wild. A two meter long skull?! It was absolutely massive. In some ways, despite knowing I'd die in hours if not minutes in that time period, it would be so incredible to see one in person

[@novavortex7763]

Amazing find of a complex and complete fossil complete fossils are so rare it's amazing this survived for so long

[@Tyrannosaur6265]

Seeing this giant so well preserved takes me back to the old history channel “documentaries” about dragons, how exciting the world of paleontology never disappoints.

[@dnadnadna-dn7nb]

i saw the thumbnail and watching the video getting upclose shots i instantly went"dang it the skull's squished and warped"

[@sp-uf6tx]

It's astonishing how great it's condition is

[@OfficialWorldChampion]

never thought i’d see a documentary about my sister on the BBC

[@Bonde7280]

They finally managed to find the Loch Ness Monster!

[@JamesStone-u5w]

Crazy how before 1840 people didnt even know dinosaurs even existed.

[@skateboardscott]

That is truly incredible. What a find!

[@momotaroreincarnatednthtim6303]

And this dwarfs the entire human existence! Huge respect to these species to be able to go beyond millions of years!

[@adoculos4521]

Yes. In comparison, time wise, we're just new arrivals.

[@gentlemancharmander4411]

More like thousands of years. They’ve been here as long as we have

[@adoculos4521]

@@gentlemancharmander4411 Oh dear, I despair of people like you and wonder if you ever went to school. The Pliosaur first appeared 203 million years ago, and became extinct after 66 million years. Modern Homo Sapiens have been on the Earth for 160,000 years. So you're not just wrong, but spectacularly so.🤦 So how could they be here 'as long as we have' when they became extinct 66 million years ago? Therefore, no form of human being, and the earliest was 2.8 million years ago, ever set eyes on a pliosaur and vice versa! You obviously neither listened to the broadcast or read the article either. Nor, it seems, can you do basic maths.

[@physicsguy6625]

Nope ​@@gentlemancharmander4411

[@MrNappySlapper]

the rain of the dinosaurs was about 200 million years. Thats a lot longer than the 200,000 or so for humans@@gentlemancharmander4411

[@hairglowingkyle4572]

Looks like a dragon skull. If people found this a long time ago, either washed ashore or dug up, you can't blame them for believing in terrifying mythical creatures

[@ingediana]

You can bet that the fossil is very old if they even need Sir David to present it 😂

[@joe.oneill]

It's name was Puff.

[@russkendrick8981]

I love this stuff! I contemplated Paleontology for a bit, but instead went for my masters in Biological Anthropology. I always geek out about these findings!!

[@emilerose1424]

You're still alive, so let the paleontologist in you live a bit. You don't need a master's degree--just drive and curiosity. Go for it!

[@nurlindafsihotang49]

Go nerd, runs wild and find our heritage of history!!!

[@ariesleorising9421]

Awesome! When I got my bachelor’s degree in psychology, I minored in anthropology. Such interesting stuff. Go live your dream, Russ!

[@gazajadebrown9866]

The David Attenborough absolutely love his voice so calming

[@donaldturner5124]

Maybe this is the “ sea monster” or “dragon” that the Vikings or ancient seafarers wrote their legends about.

[@creepybrian1800]

This is crazy. Usually when people find fossils it's small bones. This is so detailed...

[@Msdinomite]

Sometimes, although rarely, skulls can be found intact. This one was probably mostly intact when found in the cliff, but had to be taken out in chunks because of the weight.

[@BVking509]

Because it's fake

[@Mykst]

@@BVking509 Are you an experienced archaeologist? Do tell why you think this is fake.

[@BVking509]

@@Mykst Well firstly the BBC is known for lying, sometimes for Hamas, other times for famous Pedophiles. The BBC has a show around Xmas on this exact species and now this magically appears almost as if it was a piece of marketing. There have been many famous hoaxes, the skull is too intact. No tests have been performed on it. No Independent verification. Many scientists are blacklisted by the BBC. So where is your evidence to say it's real??

[@rekonzuken1]

'made in Chainah'

[@reconnaissance7372]

It's so incredibly beautifully intact

[@TheDesiWanderer]

00:19 “… and it was called pliosaur” Well good to know that English existed 75 MILLION YEARS AGO 😅😂

[@Surv1ve_Thrive]

The UK had many fascinating histories still to unearth 🇬🇧👍❤️

[@CONNECTELECTRIC]

*1776* ᵁˢᴬ👍

[@Warspite-1915]

@@CONNECTELECTRIC siilence Vietnam loser

[@saaimislam1129]

@@CONNECTELECTRIC 😂😂😂😂😂 your country used to be a colony of the british empire in the early 1800s you can’t talk plus you lost a war against vietnam.

[@CONNECTELECTRIC]

1776 *DON'T FORGET IT* 👍 Happy Holidays. @@saaimislam1129

[@bb5979]

Looks like a close relative of the crocodile

[@catiq7246]

Big brother

[@CreativeArtandEnergy]

That’s incredible.

[@jamieroach5755]

was it vaccinated?

[@EndZionism-km3kw]

Nothing exciting here, just an old crocodile skull

[@derrickhead]

this is amazing just cant believe such cool creatures was really living way before us and idk what we gonna do when david aint around such a good narrator

[@audreymuzingo933]

IKR! They need to fill that man with bionic organs so he can live forever!!

[@jeremiahlyleseditor437]

This find is incredible. It is bridging the gap between fact and fantasy.

[@adoculos4521]

?? What fantasy?

[@dannythegreat453]

Fake

[@shaunusmaximus6399]

Dinosaurs are fantasy now?

[@adoculos4521]

@@dannythegreat453 Are you kid? Nothing fake about your low IQ though.

[@veritydixon2445]

It's absolutely insane that this stuff used to exist. I'm glad every day that we don't live among such terrifying predators. Seriously, the stuff of the ocean today is like a stuffed animal compared to 75 million years ago. Devolution saved our own measly species lol.

[@eybaza6018]

Still nothing when compared to ,,Hell's Aquarium" or the Ouled Abdoun basin in Morocco@@spaceage9

[@milaro222]

Such creatures still live in Loch Ness in Scotland, those who go swimming there should think 3 times.

[@Schmopit]

I've been swimming there multiple times, it's the coldest water I've personally ever been in. In terms of monsters, the closest thing is a big sturgeon, but you're unlikely to even see one of those and even less likely to be hurt by one.

[@brassbat]

That's a dragon skull and you cannot change my mind.

[@matthewwilliams3827]

They found a dragon in the UK how cool is that

[@MariTeabag-lf1ly]

Yes, the long lost cousin of the Welsh dragon and Nessie. 😂🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[@adoculos4521]

Wouldn't dream of trying - because you don't have one.

[@jonsaircond8520]

Leviathan

[@adoculos4521]

@@jonsaircond8520 No, SCIENCE.

[@JM3DArt]

This skull is more large than the largest theropod skulls like Giganotosaurus. Badass and amazing bro

[@sandybruce9092]

Larger - not more large!

[@stephenbrand5661]

That's almost as frightening as all the raw sewage in those waters today!!!

[@chemoboy-dannypheleps9234]

and radioactive garbage

[@stellviahohenheim]

and the Communists

[@rivergladesgardenrailroad8834]

next to no one lives there, mate....

[@Gebsequanimity9300]

What if these skulls were actually mythical Creatures like dragons from myth and they’re just fooling us with this dinosaur cover story…😂

[@ThisHandleFeatureIsStupid]

New Yorkers: "I don't get it. What's the problem?"

[@ZackTanTYZ]

I can imagine people from the past saw this skull and came up with the dragon myth instead

[@flex1661]

This predator was the king of the sea. The T-Rex of waters.

[@dbzcollector9963]

That is one horrifying looking creature and it’s honestly why I have a deep seeded fear of the open ocean. I mean I can’t stand sharks they terrify me but something like this, I think I’d die of a heart attack long before It attacked lol.

[@frederickrohrbacher8606]

Incredible discovery!

[@NeptunesLagoon]

One of the inspirations for the mythology of Dragons 🐉 😮

[@Plbbbb]

Superbe découverte ! Merci à l'équipe pour ce reportage

[@susannortham11.11]

The Jurassic Coast delivers again. Amazing❣

[@mayling141]

Amazing! Also, glad to see Sir David A. still doing his thing.

[@usmh]

Tens of _millions_ of years. That thing has been in the ground for tens of millions of years, and it's still intact! I don't think I will ever completely wrap my head around that.

[@seanw1655]

Because you're being lied to.

[@humelakecabin]

No it hs only been in the ground for about 6 thousand years. The earth was created only 6500years ago.

[@spoken2]

@@humelakecabinwith all due respect, you’re very wrong .

[@jonmcclane7433]

@@humelakecabinyou’re not serious are you?

[@charlieryan1736]

Thanks for sharing this interesting and informative video

[@pawelmorrison]

Seeing Sir David made my day, what a fascinating fossil find aswell

[@ijustwannaleaveacommentony6511]

he was only there to see if he can blame something on CO2

[@fadetoblond]

That looks like a dragon. So incredibly amazing to find such a colossal creature. I wonder how my Bible thumping brother would explain this since he seems to think the world is only around 6000 years old. Since I'm estranged from him, I'll never get to argue with him about this. Oh dang. 😄

[@Geeeeeeeoesg]

Too funny

[@raoulduke7668]

yeah, creationist are not the brightest ones

[@67Pepper]

You sound like a real PITA.

[@archimedesscrew3710]

Madam, with respect. If we are to trust the science and not creation we need to ask ourselves a question first. Does the theory of evolution meet the criteria of the scientific method? Observable? Measurable? Repeatable? Reproducible?

[@fadetoblond]

@@raoulduke7668 Nope. I've ripped into him with such intense questions over the years that he couldn't answer and all he said every single time was "God works in mysterious ways" or "Only God knows" or "God does things in his time". I'd start laughing at him and roast him for being completely ignorant on the subject. He never even got past grade 7 so he never even learned the basics of science in grade 8, so he always thought science was fake. His obtusity got on my nerves so bad I had to estrange myself from him. I never needed him in my life since we weren't close, not even as kids.