Dean Lomax

Absolutely love to.

I really enjoyed it.

And it's something, working as a broadcaster, is something I never thought I would do.

But I was working with the wonderful Ellie Harrison, who was the...

The presenter and me as the co-host kind of going around Britain and meeting paleontologists and me kind of showing her some incredible fossils found in Britain.

And I had such a wonderful time doing it.

And I think the bigger picture for me is that you can reach such a massive, much broader audience.

And if you can communicate it in such a fun and engaging way, you can then supercharge people's passions for something like paleontology.

Absolutely.

Yeah, so a really good friend of mine and fossil collector called Paul de la Salle, he had snapped a few photographs of a portion of giant jawbone that he'd found on the Somerset Coast, and he'd sent them to me, and immediately my jawbone was hit the floor, because I remember thinking, wow, this thing's enormous, and he'd only found fragments of it, but it was a giant...

It's about a meter long chunk of jawbone of a bone called the serangula, which is part of the lower jaw of a giant ichthyosaur.

Now, this was just probably about 25% of the actual completeness of the actual full bone.

And altogether, just like scaling that up, the animal it belonged to would have been about 25 meters long.

So you're talking like a blue whale sized ichthyosaur.

Absolutely enormous.

Incredible.

And that's not even the end of the story, is it?

Clearly these giants were like buses.

You wait, wait, and then two come along.

Not quite at once, but just a couple of years later.