"Discoverer of Jurassic Sea Monster Clashes with BBC Over Attenborough Documentary"
Phil Jacobs, the amateur fossil hunter who discovered a significant pliosaur fossil, has been overlooked in the BBC documentary "Attenborough and the Giant Sea Monster," which credits Sir David Attenborough with the find. Jacobs, who has been hunting fossils for 40 years, found the 150-million-year-old pliosaur skull in Dorset and was only referred to as a 'fossil enthusiast' in the show. The paleontology community is calling for proper recognition of Jacobs' contribution, with an online petition to name the new pliosaur species after him and demands for the BBC to re-edit the documentary to credit him appropriately.