Bendricks Beach News Today

A fundraising quiz will take place in Barry today to celebrate Earth Day.

Bendricks Beach (Picture: Neil Latham) where the trace fossil (picture: Archaeology Cymru) was discovered VANDALS armed with sledgehammers and crowbars have targeted a Barry beach. Recently Lily Wilder, aged four, discovered a dinosaur footprint – also known as a trace fossil – at Bendricks Beach in Barry. Described as the best preserved trace fossil ever discovered in South Wales permission was sought from the landowners and Natural Resources Wales for the footprint to be removed an...

A FOUR-YEAR-OLD girl is responsible for a major fossil discovery - spotting the dinosaur footprint while out walking the dog with her dad. Lily Wilder and her dad Richard were walking at Bendricks Beach in Barry, South Wales, when she spotted the footprint in the rocks. The pair took photos and came back to the site with Lilys mum, Sally, and baby brother George. They contacted National Museum Wales, and the fossil has now been removed in order to prevent a stampede of fossil fans desce...

Four Year Old Girl Discovers One of UKs Best-Preserved Dinosaur Footprints on Welsh Beach Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/uk/202101301081930861-four-year-old-girl-discovers-one-of-uks-best-preserved-dinosaur-footprints-on-welsh-beach/ The Bendricks is a stretch of coastline in the Vale of Glamorgan in the south of Wales, as well as a protected site of paleontological interest. The area is famous for its discovery of fossilised dinosaur footprints, many of which have been removed a...

Dinosaur footprint spotted by four-year-old girl on Welsh beach hailed as the finest found in a decade Lily Wilder was walking her dog with her family in Barry when she spotted the footprint in the rocks 30 January 2021 • 5:38pm The trace fossil, believed to be around 220 million years old, will be taken to National Museum Wales, in Cardiff, A dinosaur footprint found by four-year-old girl on a Welsh beach has been hailed as the “finest found in a decade” by experts. Lily Wilder was walki...

THE best preserved fossil of a dinosaur footprint ever found in South Wales has been discovered by a four-year-old girl. Lily Wilder was walking her dog with her dad, Richard Wilder, at Bendricks Beach in Barry when she spotted a dinosaur footprint in the rocks. They took photos and came back to the site with Lilys mum, Sally, and baby brother George. Mrs Wilder, said: “Lily likes dinosaurs, especially her pterodactyl toy, and was so excited about her discovery. "She spotted a footpri...