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Phillip the kudos belonge to you....yes,Steve and Chris and Alex will get the credit for excavating it, but you"re the one that found it...i don't know if you'll remember,but myself and Chris met you on the beach a few months ago,we had a chat about the skull and we asked if we could follow you down the beach...you obliged... we got to the cut off point,right around the corner where said skull was found and we stopped....not thinking we could go any further... you just took your wellies off,stuffed them in your rucksack and waded round.......it took us another half hour to get the balls to follow you,but eventually we got round,but never managed to catch up with you...i'm glad you're now getting the recognition that you deserve,i hope they get the funding to get the rest of it out...

A great account, and an amazing fossil, well worth the visit to the Etches collection.

Pppppppp😮😮

My new favorite science channel. Great talk, fascinating!

Wow that is so awesome!😃😮

🤩 wow I am so impressed 😂

12 views? Dude, that's brutal!

Bc ye hamra college ke liye project bana diye 😂

Amazing ❤

Love in it❤😁😄❤️💛💚🥰🆒

I love the work ❤🥰😀😃😄😁😆

I love the work ❤😃

Being with a pliosaur in open water means instant death.

Amazing find!

I would imagine that a corporate sponsor such as JCB would go a long way in covering some of the heavy plant costs.

WOWZER. Well saved

Damn! What a lucky and spectacular find! Congratulations! 🎉😍😍

WAIT! This is before the etches collection was built???

I love this place. Soo many memories. I will continue to come here as long as I am able.

I remember clambering over the spoil heap of a building site near where I lived as a eight year old (sixty-odd years ago, so no H&S) to find dozens and dozens of Gryphaea and taking them to school the next day to hand out the Devil's toenails to the other kids. 10 years later, on a geology field, trip trying to extract an intact Palovia rotunda from the cliffs at Chapman's, which invariably ended in heartbreak. And now my kids have started referring to me as ''the fossil'' which I don't mind, as I've always though of fossils as something special.

I first visited this stretch of coast when I was 17 during an 'A' level geology field trip some 50 years ago and have been back countless times over the years. The feeling of wonderment at finding ancient sea creatures in the rocks has never faded and I doubt it ever will.

Our average life expectancy is infinitesimal when compared to the age of the Jurassic fossil record. I imagine discovering and curating the collection puts an even greater emphasis on how brief our time on earth is .

You’re going to have some real dusty hands by the end of that 😂

When I get out of college I’m spending a week down at the etches collection!

Where was it found?

Abcess? That's the maxillary depression, present in most goniopholidids and thought to house a gland of some kind (probably for excreting excess salt). Lovely specimen.

Great story, superbly told, thanks. You also imparted a lot of useful advice on the do's and do nots, very helpful.