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
lur the ultimate Marine Predator the
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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
bus they had long broad
flippers short strong
necks huge
heads and enormous
Jaws but there’s still a lot we don’t
know about these great sea
monsters which is why this new discovery
is so
important Steve believes that the entire
pliosaur may still be inside the
cliff but it’s the skull on which he’s
concentrating a skull can reveal more
about an animal than any other part of
its
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skeleton finding a complete specimen is
rare but it can tell us a great deal
about how the animal
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
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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
damage if the skull is successfully
extracted it will be taken to the etes
collection Museum in kimmeridge which
was founded by Steve in
2016 and now contains nearly 3,000
fossils from the Jurassic
period
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