The Shocking Discovery Of Britain's First Dinosaur | Dinosaur Hunters | Absolute History

In 1812, Mary Anning unearthed the remains of an unknown creature on a Dorset beach. Buried within the rock was the backbone of 60 vertebrae, a long tail, and a 4-foot skull with sharp teeth. It was the first complete prehistoric skeleton ever found in Britain. Anning's find would soon unlock a story that defied imagination. Her discovery of dinosaurs deeply shocked a society that believed the earth was created in 7 days.
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[@Wordmama]

This was fascinating, and I love the device of the hunters looking up in wonder at the living beasts. But I was hoping to hear about Mary Anning, and all we have is mere glimpses of her making sketches and feeding babies. Will there be more?

[@AbsoluteHistory]

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[@beareid6053]

I find that this video is about the men who discovered the fossils and not enough about Mary. After all, the erected the statue of her, not the men around her!

[@brycevo]

She was truly an amazing person.

[@crustycurmudgeon2182]

I love how this is hugely over-dramatized! But it truly tells the story behind this remarkable man, yet... the title says it's about the woman who discovered Britain's first dinosaur. She's scarcely mentioned after the first 10 minutes. Rather sad...

[@Alaska_Gal]

My son works with dinosaur fossils. I’ll have to share this with him. 🦖🦕

[@matthew-jy5jp]

You like it big ?

[@CongaLineMonkey]

Dinosaurs and Derek Jacobi? Yes please!

[@Pou1gie1]

@37:20 He shouldn't have degraded his wife's assistance toward HIS work. Putting in the preface that you apologize for HER amateurish drawings, meanwhile he is an amateur in the field is essentially projection and a way to create subterfuge so that people don't look at him too closely. No wonder she eventually leaves him. When a man doesn't appreciate his wife/partner who is assisting him in his goals and hobbies, he deserves to get ditched.

[@sylversyrfer6894]

Entertaining and informative! Thank you!

[@ellen96vf]

Very interesting episode! Great depiction of the early discoveries of dinosaurs.

[@lizgirl2005]

Amazing I was looking for this

[@bertassellodavide1297]

Mary Anning ❤️😃🥂👍

[@StopFear]

The documentary is titled in a way suggests that it will be about the lady who found the fossil, or that she contributed personally and significantly. But it seems it is about her husband. Yet his name is not in the title or even in the description. What if a viewer needed the spelling of the first and last name to look up further information.

[@AbsoluteHistory]

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[@Poodleinacan]

Wow... It's only being 201 years since the beginning of research on the dinosaurs.

[@StopFear]

Very strange and awkward cinematography.

[@michaelablair4689]

This is why medieval people thought dragons where real 🎉🎉🎉

[@alwaysdriveing]

I like this channel but I don't like when the lady starts screaming about the channel. Can't you level out the volume better?

[@Golden_Flute]

This was really intersting, but the title and the subheading are misleading. They suggest this video is about Mary Anning, but she's only mentioned for the first three minutes of the video, which then follows Gideon Mantell for the rest of it. Even his wife, Mary Ann Mantell née Woodhouse, is barely mentioned for her contributions. I'd rename it something like "The Georgian Country Surgeon Who Discovered the Iguanadon."

[@lisapop5219]

Welcome to click baiting

[@Golden_Flute]

@@lisapop5219 No kidding.

[@DFBurgermeister]

The title is misleading. The focus of the story is on the men that discovered and analyzed the dinosaurs.

[@stefaniemullins1630]

This is the guy from lost :o

[@dhm7815]

This appears to be a first episode. Where is the second episode?

[@StopFear]

One thing you can get from this documentary is that scientists in that day were arrogant people who thought they were better than others. Kind of makes me disgusted at them.

[@lisapop5219]

They were different then? Lol little has changed

[@katmandudawn8417]

I would suggest the song “ John Harrison’s Hands” about the winner of the Longitude Prize in the 1700’s. I like version by The Show of Hands. It is an infuriating story about the arrogance of the upper class to brilliant commoners and their scientific discoveries. It’s a great song too.

[@lisam2410]

Is this what inspired the Essex Serpent novel?

[@m00ncherrie29]

i love watching documentaries about important women in history edit: well it was about her husbad

[@lisapop5219]

Then you must be disappointed that it was about her husband

[@kyky8862]

I certainly was. This was horrendously titled in relation to its content

[@m00ncherrie29]

@@lisapop5219 i sure was :( i don't why they titled it that way

[@ghtbb]

@@m00ncherrie29 🙄

[@gic8849]

The best combination ever! Sometimes it feels like the universe knows what you’ve been super into lately and gives you a gift like this… Literally, all I’ve been YT binging on lately is English history and Dino’s. I’ve been super into Dino’s for about 6 years now..(I’m a late bloomer in this way,) I knew they were cool when I was young, but it took adulthood to fully understand the true amazement of it all. I watched that new HBO series last year.,and cried. Lol. It looked so real. They’re all just so amazing. I love them ALL so much! I know humans wouldn’t have done so well had we shared earth at the same time, but I felt so cheated when I learned of Nanuqsaurus aka polar-beary t-rex..like, why couldn’t have they survived at least? They lived in frozen tundras where hardly any humans have ever lived. Totally avoidable species! But no… They all had to go 😭😭 Except like..cockroaches- great thanks earth Anyway! Thanks for this upload that combines my 2 favorites ❤️

[@lisapop5219]

It's not the universe. The KZbin algorithm (as all social media) feeds you videos on what you have been watching. Rarely do they give you something outside of it in order to keep you on the platform longer

[@gic8849]

How can it be the algorithm when I’m subscribed to this channel and it was posted 6 hours before I commented

[@gic8849]

It’s literally their most recent upload. Not a video from some random channel I don’t know about. Or a subscribed channel, but the video was uploaded 2 years ago, or whatever. I’m subscribed to this channel, I binge on their content, and it just posted a video about 2 of my most (recently) favored topics, combined. I understand what you mean, but this time, it isn’t the algorithm. It’s just cool.

[@cathydelisle674]

Absolute History is absolutely fantastic

[@thhseeking]

Ichthyosaurs. Are. Not. Dinosaurs.

[@yaddahaysmarmalite4059]

The word "dinosaur" had not yet been proposed.

[@mikkelnpetersen]

Truely, the biggest enemy of archeology those days, was the church.

[@yaddahaysmarmalite4059]

Anyone who would seek to convolute science to support religious beliefs would be mad from the outset.

[@M4dAf4ka]

So overdramatized documentary. Its 20 min of important facts and 40 min of bad acting and drama.

[@stefoehmen]

My museum sells kids books about her story. Isn't this what Mary sells sea shells by the sea shore rhyme is based on?

[@judithsullivan9703]

Once again the arrogance of the academics has been overshadowed by enthusiasm of researchers who are not bound by the restrictions placed upon them by the rigidity of those who fund them nor the so called elite experts.

[@matawie]

Thats the woman in red dead redemption

[@awesomeaiden7694]

That’s exactly what I was thinking of

[@staywhite6332]

Lmao 🤦🏼🤦🏼🤦🏼🤦🏼🤦🏼🤦🏼🤦🏼🤦🏼🤦🏼🤦🏼🤦🏼

[@rileynydokus9762]

It seems christianity was the same then as it is now lol they don’t believe in anything that goes against there book lmao

[@lisapop5219]

I think you need to delve a bit deeper into Christianity. The original, Catholic & later Orthodox encouraged scientific exploration as a means of discovering God's creation. I'm not saying that there weren't those who objected because there were. The hard-core if it isn't in the Bible, it is false came about in the reformation where anything from Rome is false & can't be trusted crowd. Before you give me Galileo, no he wasn't persecuted, tortured, burned etc. Heliocentrism was proposed long before him (by a cleric no less) but he kept insisting that it was true yet couldn't prove it with the technology of the time. He also chose to ridicule his own friend (the Pope) in his book for not automatically believing because Galileo said it was so. He was given multiple chances to say this is my theory and here's why. He was given unmolested house arrest. Years later it was able to be proven correct. Given what we are always told about catholicism, he should have been burned at the stake no?

[@cathydelisle674]

Discovered by a woman of science