A significant fossil discovery of a large marine reptile, likely a pliosaur, in the late Jurassic seas of Europe offers a rare opportunity to understand these ancient ocean predators.
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they thought to have been around 10 m in
length that's about the size of a double-decker
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bus in the late Jurassic Europe was an
archipelago of islands much closer to
the Equator than it is today it Seas
were warm shallow and teeming with life
and in these Waters underneath my feet
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P unlike dinosaurs that lived on land
these colossal marine
reptiles spent their whole lives in the
ocean they thought to have been around
10 m in
length that's about the size of a double-decker
double-decker
bus they had long broad
necks huge
Jaws but there's still a lot we don't
know about these great sea
monsters which is why this new discovery
important Steve believes that the entire
pliosaur may still be inside the
concentrating a skull can reveal more
about an animal than any other part of its
its [Music]
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skeleton finding a complete specimen is
rare but it can tell us a great deal
lived it's quite hot and thirsty
work Steve and Chris think they will
have about 3 weeks to dig the fossil out
before the storms of late summer [Applause]
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coming this is a learning curve I
thought stupidly that it wouldn't be
quite as hard as
this we're probably over a meter in
there's the the skull there just behind
me it's up to us now to get out without any
any
damage if the skull is successfully
extracted it will be taken to the etes
collection Museum in Kimber which was
founded by Steve in
2016 and now contains nearly 3,000
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