Pliosaurs were the biggest and most formidable hunters in the Jurassic seas - the marine equivalent of T Rex
Sir David Attenborough will revealed the skull of a ferocious Jurassic predator in a new BBC film. With a working title of Attenborough And The Giant Sea Monster, the hour-long programme will see the 96-year-old broadcaster and naturalist explore the history of prehistoric marine reptile the pliosaur.
“Frustratingly, skulls, which can tell us most about an animal, are only too easily smashed before fossilisation but this one is virtually undamaged and promises to reveal all kinds of new details about these terrifying hunters that preyed on Lyme Regis’s better known ichthyosaurs.” The documentary, which is filmed on location across the UK, “will combine ground-breaking science with gripping storytelling and state-of-the-art CGI to tell the tale of this most phenomenal predator of the Jurassic world”.