Colossal sea monster unearthed in UK - BBC News 

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.

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

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

Please keep David Attenborough safe, he’s a treasure

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.

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.

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.

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

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😮!.

Wow. That is quite a find right there. It's just astonishing how well preserved it is as well. Amazing.

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

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

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

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

Just saw this documentary yesterday it was brilliant, such an amazing find

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🙏

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

Truly amazing and thank you for sharing this 🦕🦖🦕🦖🦕

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

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

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

it is quite important to take note of every single finding of any species. Understanding any species history is a step closer to understand and unveil the mystery behind life itself and our place therein.

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?

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

It's so beautiful. Crazy to think that was swimming around.

So cool! Thank you so much

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.

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.

Amazingly well preserved...

When sizing up pliosaurs, we use either the 1:3, 1:4, or 1:5 ratio when sizing up from just a skull. We don’t use 1:7 ratio given that it was oversizing the pliosaurs. The Walking with Dinosaurs Liopleurodon was sized up from a large pliosaur which was oversized to 25 meters when the pliosaur in general was about 10-11 meters. A recent study, though only a single neck vertebra, of a possible pliosaur was found and many estimate it to be 14.4 meters (assuming it has the same proportions as Liopleurodon). Although, it is debatable at best, but given that the vertebra is very similar to the vertebra of the genus Pliosaurus, it most lilely is a pliosaur. I've got to point out that sizing up from a single vertebra is different from sizing up from a skull. The largest pliosaur is Sachicasaurus, which we have a VERY NEARLY conplete skeleton, the animal was 10 meters and weighed 13.5 tons. However, it was NOT fully grown, so an adult may have been about 12 meters. If you size up this skull using the 1:5 ratio, it's large but not the largest.

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

Amazing how great of condition it's still in, wow.

This was a great documentary. Having David Attenborough do this was a great idea.

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!

This find shouldn't be underestimated. A very significant discovery.

I love prehistoric creatures. They are fascinating

It’s amazing how people stumble upon these remains. The eyes to find them must be pin point accurate. I wouldn’t have given them a second look in passing.

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!

here we go bbc team link in bio 🎉🎉

That might be the best way bbc could announce Izzo’s uk tour

BBC News finally going viral, good work guys

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. 😄

Fantastic! As a child I was fascinated with dinosaurs and their cousins. This still brings me joy !

Hope it comes online.. I wanna see it..

very much enjoyed this

Holy cow they found nessy

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.

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

I can't believe something like that roamed the seas... Scary to think there could be something lurking deep in it right now..

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

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

I had to look at the thumb nail a few times as I thought this was click bait..... what an amazing find

Cool stuff, thanks.

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.

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

Amazing find

That fossil is absolutely amazing!

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

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

Thats incredible

The level of detail and completeness is astounding.

What a beautifully preserved fossilised specimen of a pliosaur skull.

How can a body like that not degrade in so many million years?

Wow, England's Sea Monster from the ages before time, absolutely fascinating!

That is truly incredible. What a find!

Sir David has one of the most majestic voices ever heard. Bless him.

Etches seems a remarkable guy

This is amazing!!

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

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!!

This is how I imagined the Loch Ness monster

Spectacular discovery!

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

It's so incredibly beautifully intact

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.

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!

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

It's astonishing how great it's condition is

Awesome! I want to see the rest!🎉

This fossil is an amazing find in England.

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

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

Fabulous! Great work! Hope you’re successful in excavating the rest of this magnificent monster of the past. If you should ever read this, do you believe that McCleary, the late survivor of the Pensacola Florida sea monster tale, could have seen a living Plesiosaur as claimed those respected officers in their dive off African coast?

What a find!!!

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.

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!

"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 😅

News reader at beginning said it lived 75 million years ago then @2:17 reporter said it lived 150 million years ago as it does in the description.

What a great find. Great coverage BBC.

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

Wow, glad I missed seeing that monster! John P.

I wish dinosaurs still lived today. I always imaged that if you wanted to find a dinosaur or at least something remotely similar you’d have to go the Amazon Rainforest or the Congo Jungle.

It's name was Puff.

Superbe découverte ! Merci à l'équipe pour ce reportage

That’s so awesome!!

Thats really cool

Thanks for sharing this interesting and informative video

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

Damn imagine what lies now at the unexplored parts of the ocean

I live near Courtenay on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. In the museum is the 95% complete skeleton cast of a hundred-foot-long elasmosaur. Its teeth were recovered but the first casting of the skull was incorrect-the teeth were in the wrong places. Thus it was donated to our friend Mike Trask whose 12 year-old daughter spotted the tip of the monster’s tail embedded in the shale beside a local river. It sits on his coffee table. It is awesome despite the incorrectly reassembled dentition. 4:34 Not only is it one of the most complete specimens of its kind ever found, it is also the first dinosaur ever discovered on the West Coast of Canada (most dinosaur finds are in Alberta, several hundred miles to the east on the other side of the Rocky Mountains). It’s a wonderful story how locals excavated the entire beast without authorities commandeering the project. Eventually provincial and federal governments contributed to converting the old Canada Post and Customs building into the Courtenay Museum where the elasmosaur and other more recent finds are displayed.