4-year-old girl found new dinosaurs

The name of a girl in England is used to call a new dinosaur because she found them.

In 2009, Daisy Morris, a 4-year-old girl living in the city of Whitwell on the British island of Wight, discovered fossil bones on Atherfield beach. Then her relatives contacted the experts of the University of Southampton (UK) to announce the incident. Martin Simpson, a school fossil specialist, analyzed the fossils that Morris found, the BBC reported.

Little Daisy Morris.

Recently Simpson and his colleagues concluded that those fossils belong to a small flying dinosaur that humans do not know. The team decided to name the dinosaur Vectidraco daisymorrisae . Their findings were published on March 18.

"This is a good example of how amateurs can make great achievements , " Simpson commented.

Daisy's mother, Sian Morris, said her daughter had begun hunting down fossils since she was three years old.

"Daisy saw black fossil bones protruding from the sand on the beach in 2009. I was only four at the time, but I guess they could be dinosaur fossils. So we dug deep to If Daisy did not meet them, they might have been swept out to sea, " Sian said.

The Morris family gave fossils to the British Museum of Natural History.