Sir David Attenborough's joy at terrifying 'one in a billion' dinosaur discovery in UK
dailyrecord.co.ukSir David Attenborough recently discovered that the fossilised skull of a giant pliosaur had been found on the Jurassic Coast in Dorset.The historian was overjoyed, yet posed the all-important question...
if the pliosaur fought with a T-Rex, who would win? And it seems like the answer would be the pliosaur, which looks like a cross between a giant crocodile and a dolphin and was the biggest predator of the seas 153 million years ago, when dinosaurs roamed the earth reports the Mirror.
The pliosaur was reportedly the length of a bus and had 90 razor-sharp teeth up to six inches long. Sir David, 97, said: “It’s bigger than the Tyrannosaurus Rex by a long way, so I asked this schoolboy question.” The icon's burning question was answered by Dr Andre Rowe, of the University of Bristol, who revealed the discovery of an intact skull of a pliosaur was a “one-in-a-billion” find and that he believed the pliosaur would also triumph.
Palaeobiologist Prof Emily Rayfield agreed, saying the marine reptile had a bite so devastating it had twice the power of a great white shark.
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