A four-year-old girl has made a big discovery. Walking along a beach in Wales with her father and pet dog, she spotted an extremely well-preserved dinosaur footprint that has excited paleontologists worldwide. Lily Wilder made the discovery near Bendricks Bay in south Wales, U.K., finding an imprint thought to have been left 220 million years ago. “It was on a low rock,.
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Kate Jackson
15 Apr 2021, 16:11
A DINOSAUR footprint discovered on the Yorkshire coast has been described as a real Jurassic giant.
Scientists say the discovery, the largest ever in the northern county, could have been left behind by a 30ft meat-eater, possibly a megalosaurus.
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Marie Woods was foraging for shellfish when she discovered the giant footprint inCredit: SWNS
Archaeologist Marie Woods, who made the discovery, said: I had originally gone to collect shellfish for dinner, but got completely distracted by this beast!
Dinosaurs, despite living millions of years ago, have been in the news a lot recently. In January, a four-year-old girl found a prehistoric footprint in south Wales.
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it was stated that “there are no fossilised bones from this 220-million-year-old dinosaur, but similar footprints in the USA are known to have been made by the dinosaur
Coelophysis which does not occur in the UK.”
Richard Wilder, Lily’s father, told Carol Off, host of the show
As It Happens, that the four-year-old is now very interested in dinosaurs and that his daughter, “carries a toy
Tyrannosaurus rex everywhere she goes,” despite having been afraid of dinosaurs before the discovery.
“Now she’s a massive dinosaur fan,” her father explained.
The footprint was an unexpected finding, as the Wilder family were walking on Bendricks bay beach looking for shells, as reported by the