BBC amends Attenborough show to give fossil hunter more credit for pliosaur find

Philip Jacobs was originally named only in the credits of Attenborough and the Giant Sea Monster

The BBC has finally name-checked the man who found the prehistoric star of David Attenborough’s latest documentary after a barrage of complaints that he had been “airbrushed” from the programme.

There was outrage that Philip Jacobs, who discovered the 150m-year-old fossilised pliosaur during a beach walk in Dorset, was only fleetingly mentioned in the credits of Attenborough and the Giant Sea Monster rather than in the main body of the much-lauded show.