Attenborough and the Giant Sea Monster Movie Subtitles

1 00:00:09,280 --> 00:00:11,720 DAVID ATTENBOROUGH: I'm on the south coast of England 2 00:00:11,720 --> 00:00:16,080 in what is known as the Jurassic Coast. 3 00:00:16,080 --> 00:00:18,920 150 million years ago, 4 00:00:18,920 --> 00:00:22,160 the land was ruled by dinosaurs... 5 00:00:23,200 --> 00:00:25,560 ...but the oceans were dominated 6 00:00:25,560 --> 00:00:29,280 by a mysterious sea monster. 7 00:00:35,720 --> 00:00:38,560 Its remains are very rare, 8 00:00:38,560 --> 00:00:41,240 but some have just been discovered 9 00:00:41,240 --> 00:00:43,800 in the cliffs behind me. 10 00:00:45,840 --> 00:00:49,600 And now fossil experts are working to unearth 11 00:00:49,600 --> 00:00:52,120 this extraordinary find. 12 00:00:53,400 --> 00:00:55,400 No-one's ever done this before, ever! 13 00:00:55,400 --> 00:00:58,200 Extracting a giant skull halfway down a cliff face! 14 00:00:59,240 --> 00:01:01,640 This colossal creature 15 00:01:01,640 --> 00:01:04,800 is called a pliosaur. 16 00:01:06,440 --> 00:01:11,520 But little is known about these prehistoric giants. 17 00:01:11,520 --> 00:01:14,400 What an extraordinary and terrifying thing! 18 00:01:16,040 --> 00:01:18,480 Together, with a team of scientists, 19 00:01:18,480 --> 00:01:21,080 we will use new technology 20 00:01:21,080 --> 00:01:25,080 to discover more about this enormous marine reptile. 21 00:01:26,680 --> 00:01:29,680 I have no doubt that this pliosaur 22 00:01:29,680 --> 00:01:32,360 was the T-rex of the seas. 23 00:01:32,360 --> 00:01:35,400 Comparing it with animals alive today... 24 00:01:36,920 --> 00:01:42,680 ..we can deduce a great deal about their sheer strength. 25 00:01:42,680 --> 00:01:44,800 This pliosaur has a b***e force 26 00:01:44,800 --> 00:01:46,560 that's about twice the great white shark. 27 00:01:46,560 --> 00:01:48,480 Well, that's unimaginable. 28 00:01:50,800 --> 00:01:54,640 Could this be the greatest Jurassic predator 29 00:01:54,640 --> 00:01:56,440 that ever lived? 30 00:02:13,360 --> 00:02:16,080 Britain has a wealth 31 00:02:16,080 --> 00:02:17,600 of fossil sites, 32 00:02:17,600 --> 00:02:21,680 but perhaps none are quite so famous as this, 33 00:02:21,680 --> 00:02:24,000 the Jurassic Coast. 34 00:02:30,920 --> 00:02:35,640 I've been collecting fossils since I was a boy, 35 00:02:35,640 --> 00:02:38,520 and I haven't yet g***t tired of it. 36 00:02:38,520 --> 00:02:43,720 These days, you're supposed to wear glasses for safety. 37 00:02:43,720 --> 00:02:46,520 And, if you would know a locality, 38 00:02:46,520 --> 00:02:50,000 you would begin to recognise the sort of block 39 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:51,960 that might contain a fossil. 40 00:02:51,960 --> 00:02:54,480 And this rock was split earlier 41 00:02:54,480 --> 00:02:57,040 to make it easier to show you. 42 00:02:57,040 --> 00:02:59,280 And if I can... 43 00:02:59,280 --> 00:03:02,640 ..hit it quite hard about there... 44 00:03:08,800 --> 00:03:10,640 HE LAUGHS 45 00:03:10,640 --> 00:03:13,560 What about that? 46 00:03:13,560 --> 00:03:16,720 Is anything more beautiful than that? 47 00:03:16,720 --> 00:03:18,720 Fantastic. 48 00:03:18,720 --> 00:03:20,640 Finding even the smallest fossil 49 00:03:20,640 --> 00:03:24,280 is a thrill, but discovering something much larger 50 00:03:24,280 --> 00:03:27,520 can be an unforgettable moment. 51 00:03:27,520 --> 00:03:29,560 And that is exactly what happened 52 00:03:29,560 --> 00:03:31,320 to a fossil enthusiast, 53 00:03:31,320 --> 00:03:32,960 who was walking along a beach 54 00:03:32,960 --> 00:03:35,760 near Kimmeridge Bay in Dorset one morning. 55 00:03:36,800 --> 00:03:39,680 I just found something quite extraordinary - 56 00:03:39,680 --> 00:03:45,200 it's the jaw of a massive pliosaur. 57 00:03:45,200 --> 00:03:46,880 It's enormous. 58 00:03:46,880 --> 00:03:48,640 It's a massive pliosaur. 59 00:03:48,640 --> 00:03:51,200 It's the best fossil I've ever found. 60 00:03:52,360 --> 00:03:56,840 It must have just come out of the cliff up there somewhere. 61 00:03:56,840 --> 00:04:00,840 Renowned fossil expert Steve Etches was called in, 62 00:04:00,840 --> 00:04:02,720 and he realised immediately 63 00:04:02,720 --> 00:04:05,480 that this find could be hugely significant. 64 00:04:05,480 --> 00:04:08,240 Look! Look at those teeth. 65 00:04:08,240 --> 00:04:10,080 There's a tooth there - look. 66 00:04:10,080 --> 00:04:11,560 Let's have a look at the front. 67 00:04:11,560 --> 00:04:13,960 You can walk along here for hundreds of times 68 00:04:13,960 --> 00:04:15,480 and not find anything, 69 00:04:15,480 --> 00:04:18,760 and then, occasionally, you'll hit the jackpot. 70 00:04:18,760 --> 00:04:22,000 And this certainly is the jackpot. 71 00:04:23,480 --> 00:04:27,040 It's the snout of an enormous pliosaur skull. 72 00:04:28,800 --> 00:04:31,720 And Steve suspects that the rest of the head 73 00:04:31,720 --> 00:04:34,600 might still be embedded in the cliff above. 74 00:04:37,200 --> 00:04:39,240 But he needs to work fast 75 00:04:39,240 --> 00:04:42,120 before the whole thing tumbles into the sea 76 00:04:42,120 --> 00:04:44,680 and is lost for ever. 77 00:04:44,680 --> 00:04:47,560 So he quickly gathers a team of experts, 78 00:04:47,560 --> 00:04:51,040 including fellow fossil-hunter Chris Moore. 79 00:04:52,800 --> 00:04:54,600 It's day one of the dig. 80 00:04:54,600 --> 00:04:58,600 Steve and a team of diggers are up on the cliffs. 81 00:04:58,600 --> 00:05:02,520 They're putting a net down to stop any loose rock 82 00:05:02,520 --> 00:05:04,120 rolling down and hitting us, 83 00:05:04,120 --> 00:05:07,280 and then we'll go down and expose the skull. 84 00:05:07,280 --> 00:05:09,200 DRILL WHIRS 85 00:05:09,200 --> 00:05:11,920 Steve and Chris have worked together for decades. 86 00:05:14,240 --> 00:05:16,520 But this is the biggest challenge 87 00:05:16,520 --> 00:05:19,120 they have ever faced. 88 00:05:25,440 --> 00:05:27,320 The location of the skull, 89 00:05:27,320 --> 00:05:30,160 high up on a disintegrating cliff face, 90 00:05:30,160 --> 00:05:32,320 makes it very difficult to reach 91 00:05:32,320 --> 00:05:34,320 and even harder to work on. 92 00:05:39,520 --> 00:05:43,080 These rocks were once mud on the seafloor... 93 00:05:46,360 --> 00:05:49,200 ..in which the remains of prehistoric marine creatures 94 00:05:49,200 --> 00:05:51,080 were buried. 95 00:05:52,720 --> 00:05:57,000 Over millions of years, the continents shifted, 96 00:05:57,000 --> 00:06:00,120 the seas receded, 97 00:06:00,120 --> 00:06:03,240 and today, as these cliffs erode, 98 00:06:03,240 --> 00:06:06,280 fossilised skeletons are revealed. 99 00:06:07,480 --> 00:06:09,520 The jaw is there, and the idea 100 00:06:09,520 --> 00:06:11,920 is to actually cut this down vertically, 101 00:06:11,920 --> 00:06:15,040 and then we form a platform where the fossil is. 102 00:06:19,520 --> 00:06:22,200 I've known Chris and Steve for many years, 103 00:06:22,200 --> 00:06:24,680 and I can't wait to join them 104 00:06:24,680 --> 00:06:27,120 and find out how they're getting on. 105 00:06:31,560 --> 00:06:34,640 Here, we've g***t a live feed to them actually digging 106 00:06:34,640 --> 00:06:36,440 halfway up the cliff face. 107 00:06:36,440 --> 00:06:38,000 What's happened so far, 108 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:41,960 the tip of the snout has already come out and been recovered, 109 00:06:41,960 --> 00:06:45,080 so the rest of it is going into the cliff. 110 00:06:45,080 --> 00:06:47,440 What exactly are they doing there? 111 00:06:47,440 --> 00:06:50,120 At the moment, they're using tinfoil 112 00:06:50,120 --> 00:06:53,480 to try and protect the exposed piece of jaw. 113 00:06:53,480 --> 00:06:55,320 In case something falls on it and breaks it? 114 00:06:55,320 --> 00:06:56,920 Yeah. Yeah, yeah. 115 00:06:56,920 --> 00:07:00,480 And then they're also using superglue to consolidate 116 00:07:00,480 --> 00:07:03,280 the crumbly teeth and parts 117 00:07:03,280 --> 00:07:05,640 that have been weathered over millennia. 118 00:07:05,640 --> 00:07:07,400 And they're hanging by ropes there? 119 00:07:07,400 --> 00:07:09,600 Yes, pretty much in the centre of the cliff. 120 00:07:09,600 --> 00:07:11,920 Dear me! Pretty dangerous stuff, this. 121 00:07:11,920 --> 00:07:14,080 Yeah, yeah, it really is. 122 00:07:14,080 --> 00:07:16,200 After you've worked there for a few hours, 123 00:07:16,200 --> 00:07:17,840 it becomes a bit more natural. 124 00:07:17,840 --> 00:07:19,680 And you concentrate on the actual digging. 125 00:07:19,680 --> 00:07:23,160 You must be pretty sure that there's something there 126 00:07:23,160 --> 00:07:25,160 to put this amount of effort into it, really. 127 00:07:25,160 --> 00:07:27,200 Oh, positive there's something there. 128 00:07:27,200 --> 00:07:28,440 It's beautiful. 129 00:07:28,440 --> 00:07:29,840 It's a beautiful specimen. 130 00:07:29,840...