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'Nature: Attenborough & The Sea Dragon'
(David Attenborough / DVD / PG / 2019 / PBS)

Overview: On the Jurassic Coast of England, a remarkable 200-million-year-old fossil is discovered - the bones of an Ichthyosaur, a giant sea dragon.

David Attenborough joins the hunt to bring this ancient creature's story to life.

DVD Verdict: Sir David Attenborough hosts this detective story, from the challenging on-site extraction of the fossils to the 3D reconstruction of the creature.

He looks at evidence from animals across the world to try and piece together how this super predator lived and died.

Using state-of-the-art scanning and CGI, the team reconstructs the skeleton, creates the most detailed animation of an Ichthyosaur, and unravels an age-old murder mystery!

As always, watching a show with Sir David Attenborough is one of the most INCREDIBLE learning experiences!

In this wondrous "sea dragon" tale we learn that the Ichthyosaurs (Greek for "fish lizard") are large extinct marine reptiles.

Indeed Ichthyosaurs belong to the order known as Ichthyosauria or Ichthyopterygia ('fish flippers' – a designation introduced by Sir Richard Owen in 1840, although the term is now used more for the parent clade of the Ichthyosauria).

Ichthyosaurs thrived during much of the Mesozoic era; based on fossil evidence, they first appeared around 250 million years ago (Ma) and at least one species survived until about 90 million years ago, into the Late Cretaceous.

During the early Triassic period, ichthyosaurs evolved from a group of unidentified land reptiles that returned to the sea, in a development similar to how the mammalian land-dwelling ancestors of modern-day dolphins and whales returned to the sea millions of years later; which they gradually came to resemble in a case of convergent evolution.

Ichthyosaurs were particularly abundant in the later Triassic and early Jurassic periods, until they were replaced as the top aquatic predators by another marine reptilian group, the Plesiosauria, in the later Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.

In the Late Cretaceous, ichthyosaurs were hard hit by the Cenomanian-Turonian anoxic event. Their last lineage became extinct for unknown reasons.

Here in this 53 minute gem 'Nature: Attenborough & The Sea Dragon' we witness the discovery of a new ichthyosaur fossil, complete with fossilized skin, but strangely missing a head

The program is breathtaking, remarkably fresh and with Attenborough at the wheel never dull. This is a Widescreen Presentation (1.85:1) enhanced for 16x9 TVs.

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