Watch 30-foot Jurassic sea monster come back to life in David Attenborough's new pliosaur show

Researchers have reconstructed a deadly Jurassic sea monster after excavating an enormous fossilized pliosaur skull from a U.K. cliff face.

"The animal would have been so massive that I think it would have been able to prey effectively on anything that was unfortunate enough to be in its space," Andre Rowe, a researcher in the School of Earth Sciences at the University of Bristol in the U.K., told the BBC."I have no doubt that this was sort of like an underwater T. rex.

Meanwhile, experts at Imperial College London set about reconstructing this Jurassic predator. Researchers knew the sea monsters had short, thick necks and four strong flippers to propel themselves at high speeds, but how these worked together was unclear. RELATED STORIES—Dinosaurs dominated our planet not because of their massive size or fearsome teeth — but thanks to the way they walked

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