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.
@@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?
@@Atmatan 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 …🍑🐒 👍👌
@@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.
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
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.
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!
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!
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.
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.
@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
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 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
@@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 😂
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.
@@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.
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.
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.
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" .
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.
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 ..
Trying to imagine what the earth was like when that creature’s brain piloted that formidable body through the seas is a real exercise for MY brain . So much time has passed since it stopped being alive that ALL of that pliosaur’s organic material has returned to nature , and nature being the master sculptor has poured the minerals back into the mold that we are lucky to have in that cliff .
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
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
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.. !
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.
It's a great find and great work getting the rest of the fossil out. But it's imperative that people report special finds. By not giving the fossil hunters who found it the credit and naming of the new species your encouraging other fossil hunters to say why bother reporting it ill just keep it .. come on guys. U do an amazing job but give us fossil hunters the credit and encouragement where it's due. Good documentary otherwise 👏 thanks for sharing
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
Of course it could beat T Rex in a fight. It’s territory is water. So yes it would win, just like most sea dinosaurs. Wtf kinda stupid statement is that.
