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Hello, and welcome back to Mesozoic Mind. Today we will be looking at the very first palaeodoc of 2024, and the third work by the great David Attenborough featured here,  Attenborough and the Giant Sea Monster . It's one of the many both the BBC and David's put out over the last couple years about fossil finds, all titled "Attenborough and the X", wich include Attenborough and the Sea Dragon , about Temnodontosaurus , Giant Dinosaur, about the sauropod  Patagotitan , and Giant Egg , about the Elephant Bird. In this case, it's about a fossil specimen of the plesiosaur  Pliosaurus  found a couple years ago and the efforts to understand it, airing on both New Years Day and Valentines in the US. ( Link to the documentary ) Let's get something out of the way however: the doc does not ever say the name of the fossil's discoverer, Phillip Jacobs. The crew should be ashamed of such, and . There's even a Change.org petition that demands compensation by having ...

  Happy Valentines Day from Mesozoic Mind! As a gift to pass on, have this hastily-made image I made in Pixelr! Share this duo of the tooth taxon Cardiodon (who's name means Heart Tooth) to your loved ones And yes, I am still around. I swear I'll have a review up by the end of the month.