5 Year Old Finds Dinosaur: Scientists Named The New Flying Dinosaur After The Little Girl

5 Year Old Finds Dinosaur: Scientists Named The New Flying Dinosaur After The Little Girl

5 Year Old Finds Dinosaur: Scientists Named The New Flying Dinosaur After The Little Girl.  A newly-discovered dinosaur species has been named after the little girl who stumbled across its remains when she was just five years old.

Palaeontologists announced this week that fossilised remains found on a stretch of Isle of Wight beach in 2008 had been finally identified as a new species of flying dinosaur.

The remains were discovered by Daisy Morris, who, now aged nine, has amassed a collection of fossils and animal remains so extensive it led one expert to describe her bedroom as 'resembling a natural history museum.'

She made the find on a family walk along along Atherfield Beach on the south coast of the Isle of Wight, close to their home in Whitwell.

Daisy spotted the remains and realised it was a fossil, and the family took it to dinosaur expert Martin Simpson, who recognised its potential importance.

For the past five years, experts Darren Naish and Gareth Dyke have painstakingly studied the fossil, focusing on even the most smallest of details, before eventually publishing their findings this week.

They revealed the creature was roughly the size of a crow and was a previously unknown type of pterosaur.

The family has donated the remains to the Natural History Museum.

And when it came to naming the creature, the experts looked to its young finder for inspiration, officially dubbing it Vectidraco Daisymorrisae.

A children's book has even been written about her as a result, called Daisy and the Wight Dragon - with the title based on the translation of Vectidraco or Dragon of the Wight.

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