It was a regular day that turned into a day this girl will never forget.
Lily Wilder, A four-year-old girl in Wales found a dinosaur footprint while on a trip to the supermarket with her father. The finest impression of a 215 million-year-old dinosaur print found in Britain in a decade .
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When her father first saw it, he thought it was some sort of art project done by a local, but after reading that other dinosaur footprints had been discovered on coasts, he took a picture of it.
After posting the pic on social media, it went off, people from all over were asking about it,
This is the kind of story that makes archeologists, covered in dust and sweat and still searching for an elusive dinosaur bone fragment, cry in their cold tents at night. A family walking along a beach in Wales was startled when the four-year-old girl looked down and said, “Daddy, look at this.” When Daddy looked, instead of a coin or a dead fish – the kinds of things four-year-olds normally find on the beach – he saw what looked like a well-defined dinosaur’s footprint on a rock. And not just an ordinary dinosaur’s footprint either.
“This fossilised dinosaur footprint from 220 million years ago is one of the best-preserved examples from anywhere in the U.K. and will really aid paleontologists to get a better idea about how these early dinosaurs walked.”
A four-year-old girl has discovered a dinosaur footprint, preserved in rock on a beach near Barry, south Wales.
The 220-million-year-old print was found by Lilly Walker and her family when they were out on a walk in their local area.
Lily was the first to spot the footprint on a loose block near the sea at Bendricks Bay, which is a well-known beach for its dinosaur footprints.
The print has been described by the National Museum of Wales Palaeontology curator as the best specimen ever found on this beach .
The fossil has been extracted from the rock and has been taken to National Museum Cardiff where it can be studied and preserved.
Perfect 215-million-year-old dinosaur print found by girl, 4, on Welsh beach
“The finest impression of a 215-million-year-old dinosaur print found in Britain in a decade”
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Lilly Wilder, 4, found this perfect 215-million-year-old dinosaur footprint in Barry. She s pictured with her father Richard and mum Sally
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