The head of a fossilised pliosaur has been uncovered by a local collector on the jurassic coast.
Biography
Science Correspondent Tom Clarke's beat varies from bird flu to climate change.
He has covered energy and the environment in the frozen North as part of the first live news bulletin from inside the arctic circle. He met some of the world's most endangered whales threatened by oil exploration in Russia's far East, and followed the growing pains of the UK's landmark Climate Change Bill.
In 2007 Tom reported and presented a Channel 4 Dispatches investigation into the shadowy world of carbon offsetting.
Most recently he was electrocuted (voluntarily) in Amsterdam in an attempt to explain an experiment designed to erase fearful memories.
Tom started out as a scientist, studying insects in the cotton fields of the American deep south. After leaving the lab, Tom trained in journalism in New York. He worked as a science producer for American National Public Radio and a science reporter for ABC television's affiliate network.
Tom returned to his native England in 2000 and worked as a reporter for the science magazine Nature, before joining Channel 4 News in 2003.
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Tom Clarke
