# @bbcearth on YouTube

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://youtube.com/watch?v=nLE0KCW5cis
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/73488532-bbcearth-youtube
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- **Posted:** 2025-07-22T14:01:24.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** BBC Earth (@bbcearth) — https://gondola.cc/bbcearth

## Caption

It’s astonishing how much a single fossil can reveal about prehistoric life. Join Sir David Attenborough as scientists use detailed 3D scans to digitally reconstruct the fossil of an ancient ichthyosaur, discovered in 2016 at Lyme Regis by fossil hunter Chris Moore. Could this ancient sea dragon be a new species? 

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This clip is from Attenborough and the Sea Dragon (2018)

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## Tags

ichthyosaur, fossildiscovery, prehistoriclife, seadragon, paleontology

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