Attenborough and the Sea Dragon

7:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Sunday 28 September
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Attenborough and the Sea Dragon

The naturalist joins a team of scientists examining the 200 million-year-old fossilised remains of an ichthyosaur, a vast sea creature which was discovered on Dorset's Jurassic Coast. As the skeleton is reassembled, advanced imaging technology and computer animation is used to create a simulation of the sea creature as it would have appeared when it was still alive - the most detailed reconstruction of its kind ever attempted. Meanwhile, forensic investigators painstakingly examine the bones to solve the mystery of how the ichthyosaur died

Attenborough and the Sea Dragon airs on U&Yesterday +1 at 7:00 PM, Sunday 28 September. (Subtitles, audio description.)
Topics
Education ➝ Science ➝ Factual Topics
Nature ➝ Animals ➝ Environment
David Attenborough
Presenter
Michael Gunton
Executive Producer
Sally Thomson
Producer