5 Year Old Finds Dinosaur - Daisy Morris Gets New Species Named After Her, 'Vectidraco Daisymorrisae' [VIDEO]
Daisy Morris was just five-years-old when she discovered a dinosaur. Morris made the discovery four years ago along the beaches of the Isle of Wight. After years of research, paleontologists say the discovery is of a new species of dinosaurs that once flew.
The fossils of the new dinosaur species was discovered while she was taking a walk with her family along the Atherfield Beach on the south coast of the Isle of Wight.
Morris recognized that she found a fossil and her family later took it to Martin Simpson, a dinosaur expert.
The fossil has been analyzed for four years and finally the findings of the scientists have revealed that it is a new species of flying dinosaur, a type of pterosaur.
The remains will be displayed at the Natural History Museum for public display.
"She is fascinated by it," Morris' mother Sian said to BBC. "If we are in the car and we go past an animal that has died, she'll ask me to stop so we can pick it up and she can take it home. She'll put them under a crate in the garden and let it decompose. The flies lay eggs and maggots clean the skeleton, then she collects the bones. If your child is good at drawing or dancing and they enjoy it, then you encourage them and this is what Daisy enjoys, so her Dad and I have never said eurgh, we've tried to encourage her. Rather than say that's disgusting, we'd like to help her find out about things. She's fascinated and we're very proud of her."
The new dinosaur species was named after Daisy Morris - the Vectidraco Daisymorrisae.
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