A Nine-Year-Old Girl Got a New Ancient Flying Reptile Species Named After Her Because She Discovered It

When Daisy Morris was four eld old , she found fossilised bones of a previously undiscovered species of the flying reptilian beast pterosaur . Now , at nine years young , scientists have decided to name the reptile , which survive during the same time period as dinosaurs , after Daisy . It ’s called Vectidraco daisymorrisae . How cute .

Daisy , who accord to her mom has been digging for fossils since she was three , found the nigrify bones at Atherfield beach in England in 2009 . The family then hand the finger cymbals to Southampton University ’s fogy expert Martin Simpson who discovered that the fossil find by a child was a new genus and mintage of the small pterosaur . They live 220 million old age ago along side dinosaurs .

Simpson pronounce that if Daisy had n’t had found the fossils , they probably would have been washed away by the eroding coastline . Good job Daisy . You ’ve done more at 4 years old than most people would do in 4 lifetimes . [ PLOS OneviaBBCviaNeatorama ]

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