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Radio Solent,6 mins

How a Jurassic coast 'Sea Monster' was discovered

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A New Years Day special, presented by David Attenborough will feature the 150 million year-old Pliosaur fossil. Its a two metre long skull which was painstakingly excavated from a cliff by two of Dorset's most celebrated palaeontologists; Steve Etches and Chris Moore. Dr Judyth Sassoon from Bristol University has been the lead academic on the scientific description of this fossil. She says that its a species never found before in Britain, and possibly for the rest of the world.

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