150-Million-Year-Old Giant Sea Monster Found In Dorset Cliff

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A 150-million-year-old snout belonging to a predatory marine reptile was found by a fossil enthusiast while walking along England's famous Jurassic Coast. The chance discovery led to a retrieval mission of epic proportions as fossil experts scaled down a nearby cliff face in search of the rest of it. It wasn’t easy, but it paid off, and the resulting monstrous skull - believed to belong to a new-to-science species - is the star of a new documentary from the BBC called Attenborough and the Giant Sea Monster.
“We put a drone up, then scanned all the way along the cliff and found what looked to be the rest of it sticking out of the cliff, but we needed to confirm that and that meant a trip down the cliff on ropes to actually go down and see it,” fossil expert Steve Etches MBE told IFLScience as he showed us the massive, impressive skull.
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00:00 Intro
01:35 Interview starts
01:58 Jurassic Coast
02:40 Getting the fossil out of the cliff
04:30 How long did it take to excavate?
05:40 What happened once the skull was out?
06:02 What are the signs that this is a new species?
06:25 How did they recreate the teeth?
07:26 What features did Pliosaurs have?
08:02 What animals today can compare to Pliosaurs?
08:47 Is there anything left in the cliff to find?
09:07 What other fossils have been found on the Jurassic Coast?
09:33 Preparing for a visit to the Jurassic Coast
10:09 Outro
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@IFLScienceOfficial 4 ай бұрын

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@nanateetee4029 7 ай бұрын

Usually, I find these documentaries a tad dry. You did a fantastic job keeping me focused without taking an hour and a half to explain. Thank you!

@PhilipLongee-vw8jf 5 ай бұрын

Well it helps when the camera keeps focusing on the jaws with all those big teeth! Glad it’s not around right now.

@philipjjacobs 7 ай бұрын

One of my better finds from the beach. Well done Steve, Chris and all the team. That August when you were excavating was so hot. Comparing it now with when it first arrived at the museum just shows how superb Steve`s skill and artistry is.

@IFLScienceOfficial 7 ай бұрын

What an incredible find!

@garyk1334 7 ай бұрын

It's awesome & I don't live far away so I'm going to go see it sometime , congrats & cheers 🍻

@donwhite4863 7 ай бұрын

Àa

@generalleigh7387 7 ай бұрын

Where did all that mud come from?

@quakerninja 7 ай бұрын

I'm never going in the water again.

@kellyharrison5184 7 ай бұрын

A leisurely visit to the Jurassic Coast is on my bucket list.

@venturefanatic9262 7 ай бұрын

Gives me chills looking at it, wondrous!

@Fush1234 6 ай бұрын

Im surprized Attenborough it’s still around. He must be a museum piece himself.

@etet4736 7 ай бұрын

Majority of people don’t realize those “fossils” are remakes of the actual ones. Just like the full ones in museums.

@Ledinosour673 7 ай бұрын

exactly, fossils are too fragile to be kept in public spaces, so they make replicas of them and keep the original thing in a safe space where it can be researched

@susieare 2 ай бұрын

You can see them holding up a cast of it in the video, but that is the original fossil in the video.

@gregp9350 7 ай бұрын

Question: Are you planning on excavating the rest of this Pliosaur from the Jurassic Coast? It would be amazing if you were to recover the rest of the animal to put on display.

@erikiacopelli451 7 ай бұрын

God I hope so

@jo-vf8jx 7 ай бұрын

@@erikiacopelli451they are planning on it this coming Spring/Summer if memory serves me right

@erikiacopelli451 7 ай бұрын

@@jo-vf8jx that so awesome I can't wait 😁tyvm!

@erikiacopelli451 7 ай бұрын

@@jo-vf8jx that so awesome I can't wait 😁tyvm!

@TomGodson95 7 ай бұрын

@jo-vf8jx Hopefully it doesn't crumble away with these heavy storms we're getting

@Dumdadum76 7 ай бұрын

0:22 I bet it could have beaten a T-Rex in a fight, but only because of T-Rex not having invented a snorkel yet 😂

@David_Camerwrongun 7 ай бұрын

Just have this image now of a T-Rex in a shed frantically working to figure out how to breathe underwater with his little arms 😂

@whynottalklikeapirat 7 ай бұрын

T-Rex could not scratch his butt … let that sink in …

@Atmatan_Kabbaher 7 ай бұрын

@@whynottalklikeapiratTrees and the ground exist. Have you ever once in your life seen a dog use its paws to scratch its own ass? No: they do that shīt on your carpet. Why would any dinosaur not simply scratch itself on the nearest object that juts out far enough, as literally all other living things except humans do naturally?

@whynottalklikeapirat 7 ай бұрын

@@Atmatan_Kabbaher Because that big fat tail and those tall thicc thighs are in the way of squatting to the point where it’s scaly butt touches the ground. Same goes for a tree unless it would lay down on its side and somehow push itself backwards into a position where it could then try to twerk violently to bounce off the ground. And further - if you’ remember a dog uses its front legs to lean on and pull itself forward doing the signature thing on the carpet. Picture a t-rex trying that, face in the dirt, wee arms squashed by its massive weight, hind legs impossibly splayed out to the sides and the tail poking up at a break-neck angle in a desperate attempt to create some butt clearance 😂. How many chickens and flamingos have you seen attempting that manoeuvre? How many fish? How many cockroaches? Are kangaroos in the grey zone? The Monkes are home free of course they have aaall the hands and also like to cooperate …🍑🐒 👍👌

@Atmatan_Kabbaher 7 ай бұрын

@@whynottalklikeapirat First off, Cockroaches and fish don't have the same types of nerve endings as mammals and avians have. Second off, you do know that trees were significantly larger when the dinosaurs lived than they are now? Oxygen was higher and even arthropods were larger in size. A rex could literally walk past a tree taller than some of our current, modern day skyscrapers hundreds of times a day: our tallest redwoods today don't even come close to the average size of ancient trees. Finally, you have a very weird imagination of how you think animal biology works. In what universe do you unironically try to justify and argue that a trex couldn't scratch its own ass. Like c'mon dude, even if common sense weren't against you, two seconds of logic surely is.

@meshugganator08 7 ай бұрын

What a fantastic find!

@barry7608 7 ай бұрын

Thanks for so much dedication and sharing.

@earloverbay7580 7 ай бұрын

I love watching you make your wildflower tea almost as much as watching you create a blade.

@CAPHOTO1961 4 ай бұрын

Do we really need to call them monsters? The only monsters I know walk on two feet and use smart phones.

@timlewis7218 6 ай бұрын

This is one of the most stunning things ive ever seen.

@jaymac7203 7 ай бұрын

Its so good to see Captain Picard keeping busy 😭 Although he seemed to prefer archaeology in Startrek tng 🤔 lol

@MarianaSantos1974 5 ай бұрын

Great interviews! Totally love it 😀

@vlatepes1901 7 ай бұрын

Ill never put on a lifejacket again. So, eleven hundred men went into the water. 316 men came out, the damn beast took the rest.

@TANTRUMGASM 7 ай бұрын

anyway, we delivered the bomb

@hiddenspeak 7 ай бұрын

INCRÍVEL!!! que mundo louco esse que vivemos!! 🤯😍🤩

@Hklbrries 6 ай бұрын

Fascinating. Thank you!

@kertmustapha2367 7 ай бұрын

Fascinating! I love this stuff.

@herbgrinder8335 7 ай бұрын

A sea monster found on the cliffs? Don't get me wrong but that looks more like a dragon skull to me.

@garyk1334 7 ай бұрын

You mean cliffs that used to be a seabed long ago

@themotorider1 7 ай бұрын

Nah!, I can't believe that. Deffo a dragon from the cliffs. Possibly as much as 500 years old!.@@garyk1334

@slappy8941 7 ай бұрын

You need Jesus.

@garyk1334 7 ай бұрын

@slappy8941 No thanks I've seen what religion does to people & I don't like it at all

@davebowers8631 7 ай бұрын

@@slappy8941 You need fossils

@johannesvanzijl5738 7 ай бұрын

Incredible

@jaycee5968 6 ай бұрын

Great piece! So interesting

@johnshields6852 7 ай бұрын

The condition is breath taking, looks like it died last year.

@jessewru6425 7 ай бұрын

I just got chills.

@systemicxdesign 7 ай бұрын

This has been going on for as long as the waters have met the land... Imagine there were individuals that made discoveries throughout the centuries, imagine what they thought? perhaps even dragons! might have been a common belief amongst many different people across the world? Possibilities abound!

@Atmatan_Kabbaher 7 ай бұрын

I think it's a pretty well unstated concensual 'fact' that dragons, if ever real creatures, were likely just large and misclassified reptiles or sauropods. Whether they lived alongside humans is a different debate entirely. To me the only difference between a dragon and a Quetzalcoatl is that we now factually have the bones of one of them and then randomly decided the other doesn't exist.

@nicholasroach3394 7 ай бұрын

Very good film 👍

@DreadEnder 7 ай бұрын

Kimmeridge is great for fossils! Also (as I have personally experienced), it is great for flies and broken legs!

@maryjocully8806 5 ай бұрын

Nice job to the young woman asking the questions. Last question was terrific- can visitors walk that beach and find fossils still.

@vmac2834 7 ай бұрын

Old film "Walking with Dinosaurs" has an episode about marine dinosaurs of Jurassic era and a story suggesting that they could hurt each other and sometimes deadly. In the episode one of Pliosaurs gets bitten by another one , gets weak and does not survive a vicious sea storm , ends up being washed away on the shore and dies like whales die these days.. When talking about the size of this one, they said in another program that it was possibly a younger one, because in size it is smaller than what archaeologists found before ..

@redeyestones3738 7 ай бұрын

It always cracks me up when I hear people talking about an animal that hasn't existed for 150 million years like they absolutely knew everything about them and their behaviors. It's preposterous. And when they start this video talking about how an ocean dweller could take t Rex in a fight is just silly. Why not just say, "here's this super crazy crocodillian fossil we found..." because that's interesting enough.

@SEYMOUROFU 3 ай бұрын

kudos on the find!

@joemontano71 5 ай бұрын

That thing looks *FEROCIOUS!*

@dmr6640 7 ай бұрын

Well done!

@kaijuar2003 7 ай бұрын

Just to say it, the skull of a pliosaur made up one-fifth of the body, so if you multiply the length of the skull from snout tip to the back of the skull, you'll get the actual size of the animal. This is confirmed with the size of Liopleurodon. Many thought it was 33 feet, but it was really 20-23 feet from a full skeleton found. The largest skull, which was 4.15 feet, came up with an animal of 22 feet and 3.3 tons. The same goes for all other pliosaurs. Comment made: 3:05 PM Sunday, December 24 2023

@dondragmer2412 7 ай бұрын

Yes, their necks and tails were shorter than previously thought. Makes them no less scary, since the business end is the huge head, jaws, and teeth.

@kaijuar2003 7 ай бұрын

@dondragmer2412 No, duh Sherlock Holmes. Like, I TOTALLY did not know they had 15-ton bite forces and could PROBABLY swim fast enough to chase prey. Reply made: 5:21 PM Thursday, December 28 2023

@Atmatan_Kabbaher 7 ай бұрын

@@kaijuar2003You writing like an asshole and dating your own messages makes me question everything about your validity. You could be right, but I'm still going to spend the rest of my budget proving you wrong 😂

@justlee2164 7 ай бұрын

Wow that's amazing !!!!!

@barbrice721 5 ай бұрын

Fantastic.

@rayymfelixo149 6 ай бұрын

our world is full of mysteries... imagine these creatures so full of wonders..

@Mich_Angel 7 ай бұрын

So that is amazing that another skull of this species is found in roughly same area in europe, as the previous found in the sandstone caves in Holland.. That complete big skull you had on the table look identical like the one found in the sandstone mining caves in Holland toward the border of Belgium. Found complete skull sometime around ww1 or even earlier mining sandstone in those dugg out tunnels during a dig. If I recall right during WW2 the na**is found the skull when looking for the resistance in the tunnels and they stole the skull and took it to France where it still is last I heard. Regardless of several times beggin France to return it to Holland France have kept it and refused to give it back to Holland. Very nice to see more digging done.. to find our past we need to keep digging and dig deeper and deeper.. !

@JurassicFossils-jj1mf 7 ай бұрын

That is really awesome

@paulsmodels 7 ай бұрын

So this guys come up with this huge beast based on the portion of a "snout" that has some teeth in it??!?

@elberethreviewer5558 7 ай бұрын

I live in Northern California, and we don't have anything this cool out here.

@moimeme1928 7 ай бұрын

I always state that it is impossible for us to know how many other, undiscovered, species of, so called, "monsters" lived in prehistoric times because of the ever changing world 🌎 we live in. As a result of Earth's constant reclamation by subterranean movements. Not much can be done about what we don't know because we can't pull out anything reclaimed back into lava.

@paulbedichek5177 7 ай бұрын

INFORMATION CAN NOT BE DESTROYED.

@SumNumber 7 ай бұрын

It seems that everything from the era had big sharp teeth . Same Dentist ? Cool find . :O)

@Sigma1_969 2 ай бұрын

Man! If i could go back in time for 5 minutes, i go to when these creatures were in abundance

@MattyRox 3 ай бұрын

This is soooooo cool 😎

@goldseekersadventures9380 7 ай бұрын

Looks like a prehistoric saltwater croc

@SnowTiger45 7 ай бұрын

I'm surprised that it is Legal for the Public to pick up and/or remove ANY fossils from this site. Being able to access the beach is one thing but allowing the public (especially foreign Tourists) do any more than that can result in irreversible harm and huge regrets. In Canada, ALL Fossils (and Meteorites) belong to the Government of Canada. Canadians are permitted to find and extract fossils but are required by law (or at least supposed) to report any finds and/or send them to Ottawa for scientific research, after which the fossil (or meteorite) "may" be returned to the finder depending on the specimen's significance.

@TANTRUMGASM 7 ай бұрын

Wow, I thought Canada was progressive but how ultra Orwellian and restrictive they are ! .... "permitted to find"? yikes, permitted?? north korea much?? "All fossils belong to the Government"?? that is fairly pathetic.. tell me, technically..what "irreversable harm " is done when a child takes home a Nautilus fossil? ...what specific "harm " is done? there is none. also, there is not much "scientific research" done to fossils , basically they just date them and say, "yep, that is a horse shoe crab" .

@bonniemob65 6 ай бұрын

It's basically legal on any coast in the UK. As long as you aren't hammering the fossils out of the cliff or the floor, and are just collecting it from the loose shingle (and unless the land is on private property where you need to ask permission to collect) it's automatically yours.

@James-sn5mg 6 ай бұрын

Look at those damn teeth. Holy cow. They look like indestructible metal. Looks tough as hell even after 150 million years. Imagine how strong they were when that thing was alive!

@PortmanRd Ай бұрын

Wow, and the rest of its body is still embedded in the cliff face.

@aleccap5946 7 ай бұрын

I thought this was supposed to be a special TV show over Christmas ?

@nexpro6985 7 ай бұрын

All these incredible creatures buried deep in the rocks over huge periods of time and yet we still have young-earth-creationists who believe that the earth was created six thousand years ago. Science exposes the truth of our reality.

@earlysda 7 ай бұрын

nexpro, Why are you a believer in Uniformitarianism?

@paulsmodels 7 ай бұрын

It takes more "faith" to believe in millions of years, and what these scientists say, than it does to believe in what the Bible says.

@garyk1334 7 ай бұрын

They prefer myths & fables to reality because they think they're going to live forever if they bow & scrape enough , sad really

@adamhuffman3354 7 ай бұрын

Man must be governed like children. A common faith is needed to provide social structure and “hope “. A hopeful society is a productive society.

@garyk1334 7 ай бұрын

@adamhuffman3354 False Hope is no hope , I'm a happy atheist at peace with the fact I have one short life , I'm making sure I enjoy it . Funny isn't it how civilizations & tribes throughout history & across the globe managed to have peaceful happy law abiding societies of large & small size without ever having heard of your god or his odd extremely limited in scope commandments

@vampirzii 6 ай бұрын

I hope they are able to find the rest of the body if they can

@tipthetube3219 7 ай бұрын

Ah bowt 2.5mls away in our Eocene cliffs NR Taddiford gap we have a mammalian crocodilian level all but devoured by Terminal groyne syndrome. The decimation of this area is heartbreaking. R I P Beckton Bunny

@jaisanatanrashtra7035 5 ай бұрын

Same holes on the snout like Spinosaurus 😂👍

@Kroggnagch 7 ай бұрын

1:27 are those goblin shark jowls?

@tremainej8171 7 ай бұрын

Only goes to show that any life we find outside of earth most like will try to eat us lol

@SpringGhost6521 4 ай бұрын

The buenime triangle the last time I got this on the road it also kick me out somehow the page popped up?

@ValiantGarton 7 ай бұрын

Could have beaten T-Rex in a fight. Of course T-Rex would be more concerned fighting drowning.

@barrykingery4252 7 ай бұрын

Its a sea dragon...not a fish....

@hegedusattila5655 3 ай бұрын

When I look at this head, I mostly think of a dragon or a crocodile body.

@mandyparsons2616 6 ай бұрын

No mention of the man who found it.. Or menton of him on the tv show??????

@BetterManJdm-xr3rz 7 ай бұрын

That's no sea monster, that's Slifer the Sky Dragon. It even has the 3rd eye on its forehead

@Atmatan_Kabbaher 7 ай бұрын

No second mouth tho?

@garryferrington811 6 ай бұрын

"Giant Sea Monster" is a bit overcooked. Reads like a poster for a 50's giant monster movie. Great report, though!

@tylerhartley8531 7 ай бұрын

Paradigms are interesting, looks like a dragon to me

@DeuceGenius 7 ай бұрын

A real dragon

@jasontipton8430 7 ай бұрын

to bad they wont let them excavate that whole area no telling what awesome discoveries would be found

@snoutysnouterson 7 ай бұрын

Beat a t rex in a fight? In the sea sure, on land no. What a silly thing to say

@dondragmer2412 7 ай бұрын

Well, of course it could have beaten T. rex in a fight; if the fight took place on or underwater.

@Rui_Miguel_ 6 ай бұрын

If this is true its incredible scary ❤

@user-vg8mc5bo2f 7 ай бұрын

This is really frightening. Just think about living at such a time where language was just ulla bulla and you are in the water trying to figure out what they are telling you. Meanwhile this creature is getting closer and closer

@RWildekrav66 7 ай бұрын

Um , that would be Ugga Shmugga Ooog . NOT ulla bulla !

@mikes5637 6 ай бұрын

There were no humans around when this animal was alive.

@Legna1826 5 ай бұрын

Imagine yourself on a fishing boat, fishing pole in hand trying to catch your next meal and this mf-er takes the bait!! Now what??

@Radioroom91 7 ай бұрын

Are sea dropped so much

@TheGothicdolphin 2 ай бұрын

I believe the teeth are grossly exaggerated. It's like a caricature made to fit its 'sea monster' description.

@Shoebox9 7 ай бұрын

Wow, that's a scary lookin fish

@TheEtchesCollection 7 ай бұрын

It is terrifying isn't it!

@DxrkShad0w 7 ай бұрын

@@TheEtchesCollectionit reminds of a video game sea monsters of something

@TheEtchesCollection 7 ай бұрын

@@DxrkShad0w That may well be why the BBC chose to call it the Giant Sea Monster. Nature is amazing and some of it's creations like this Pliosaur can really exceed our imagination.

@Michael-mh4vr 7 ай бұрын

Typical pitbull owner: nah..my pitt can take it on!@@TheEtchesCollection

@jrexon2001 7 ай бұрын

Ye, but it's a water lizard!

@kittylozon2106 5 ай бұрын

Is this Pliosaur bigger than a Mosasaur?

@richardgibson4757 7 ай бұрын

God was busy in them 1st 7days😂🙏

@PatatoKing916 3 ай бұрын

The statistic that ichthyosaur would beat a trex in a fight means nothing. One is a land based created and the other is ocean based. The creature that is in natural environment would win.

@vanillasmerk5742 7 ай бұрын

I wouldve loved to see steve erwin jump on that beast! Crikey😊

@CoolPhat73 3 ай бұрын

T- Rex would thump this fish up and down the beach like a little bony starfish!!! We're talking Godzilla baby!!!

@dewansonrichardson3254 4 ай бұрын

Don't u guys think that the cliff was once under water?

@HolyAscencieonChurch 7 ай бұрын

Head of a Dragon !

@Andizu1 7 ай бұрын

So Nessie went on a road trip?

@tobberfutooagain2628 7 ай бұрын

Looks like a damn dragon… Could see where people could mistake it for one….

@gmain1977 7 ай бұрын

It is!!!! St George killed a Dragon , all the stuff ancients spoke about are getting found

@tobberfutooagain2628 7 ай бұрын

@@gmain1977 -ah, the time frame is a little off… by 70 million years….

@thingol--_1 7 ай бұрын

Elizzardbeth is back

@roachdoggjr1940 7 ай бұрын

We're gonna need a bigger boat.

@bobbybooshay8641 7 ай бұрын

It's "your", not we're. Mandela effect activated!

@roachdoggjr1940 7 ай бұрын

@@bobbybooshay8641 I've never seen jaws. I'm 30.

@YouTubeIsForQueers 7 ай бұрын

Came for sea monsters, left due to a distinct lack of sea monsters. Just some dude talking about some shit they found on a beach.

@bobbybooshay8641 7 ай бұрын

A closed mind is an empty mind champ. Now get back on that dishwasher please. Thanks.

@larsrons7937 7 ай бұрын

So far they do have the skull. That skull is from a creature from the sea, and that skull is giant. That sea creature was a monster. A sea monster.

@jamesburke6078 6 ай бұрын

Not likely to ever have come in contact with Rex! Right? So why even bring Rex up?

@RichardPeterson-de2fh 14 күн бұрын

We tell our children for years that there’s no monsters!! Yet you people post it as such when it’s just a dinosaur. Monsters are people hurting children. Thumbs down for your title

@silverlining.528 7 ай бұрын

You lost me at 150 million years

@slappy8941 7 ай бұрын

Can't you count that high on your fingers and toes? 😂😂😂

@squintylizard 7 ай бұрын

@@slappy8941 and neither can you..🤦‍♂🤦‍♂

@bonysminiatures3123 6 ай бұрын

if you win the lottery you can keep 6000 and i keep the rest deal ??

@Michelle-tr5sq Ай бұрын

I bet there was something bigger 😮

@NotTodayoranyday 7 ай бұрын

Thats what sea said

@DominicMarshall-gy3mq 7 ай бұрын

Is there not an Idea that Stone Henge When the Earth Was Pangeae England was Very Worm 😊

@aldostefanini1392 7 ай бұрын

Monster 😮 thank god it's extinct now. Wouldn't want to meet it when i go fishing deep-sea. Excellent find

@KristyW72 7 ай бұрын

That was buried during the flood.

@bonysminiatures3123 6 ай бұрын

well it would not work as this is a strong and fast swimmer

@markward6076 7 ай бұрын

Isn't that what attack an ww1 sub ?

@elizabethbrown2455 7 ай бұрын

Looks like a sea dinosaur fossil.

@toughenupfluffy7294 7 ай бұрын

It would've been as long as a full sized school bus. With children.

@charjole1960 7 ай бұрын

Those teeth look like dragon teeth

@Ledinosour673 7 ай бұрын

stop

@pureblood8427 6 ай бұрын

Rachael is ravishing....