David Attenborough film tells of risky mission to excavate ‘T rex of the seas’ from Dorset cliff
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BBC documentary uses cutting-edge science and visual effects to show how details about the Jurassic pliosaur came to lightIt’s not every day that Dorset farmer Rob Vearncombe has to come up with a way to get a gigantic fossilised creature down from a sheer cliff face. Yet this is what he found himself doing earlier this year when he designed a crate on which the skull of an enormous prehistoric reptile was lowered off part of England’s Jurassic coastline – a massive engineering challenge.“He...

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