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A 4-year-old girl on a beach walk with her family stumbled upon an incredibly well-preserved dinosaur footprint that stretches back 220 million years.
Lily Wilder was out for a stroll at Bendricks Bay near Barry in south Wales in December when she stumbled upon the footprint in a loose block sitting near the ocean, Amgueddfa Cymru National Museum Wales said in a press release. Get push notifications with news, features and more. + Follow
Following You ll get the latest updates on this topic in your browser notifications. It was Lily and [her dad] Richard who discovered the footprint, her mom Sally said in a statement. Lily saw it as they were walking along and said, Daddy, look. When Richard came home and showed me the photograph, I thought it looked amazing. Richard thought it was too good to be t
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A four-year-old girl has discovered a dinosaur footprint, preserved in rock on a beach near Barry, south Wales.
The 220-million-year-old print was found by Lilly Walker and her family when they were out on a walk in their local area.
Lily was the first to spot the footprint on a loose block near the sea at Bendricks Bay, which is a well-known beach for its dinosaur footprints.
The print has been described by the National Museum of Wales Palaeontology curator as the best specimen ever found on this beach .
The fossil has been extracted from the rock and has been taken to National Museum Cardiff where it can be studied and preserved.
Dinosaur footprint found on a beach in Wales
12:20 Saturday, 30 January 2021
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A dinosaur footprint has been discovered by a four year old girl on a beach in Wales.
Lily Wilder spotted it at Bendricks Bay in Glamorgan.
Scientists say it could help establish how they walked.
The footprint is around 220 million years old and had been preserved in mud.
The print is 10 centimetres long and likely from a 75 centimetre tall dinosaur.
National Museum Wales palaeontology curator Cindy Howells described it as “the best specimen ever found on this beach”.
Special permission had to be sought from Natural Resources Wales to legally remove the footprint.
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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 and housed in nearby museums.
A four-year-old girl discovered a dinosaur footprint on a South Wales beach on Friday, described as the best-preserved in the UK, the National Museum Wales has announced.
Lily Wilder and her dad Richard were walking their dog along Bendricks Beach in Barry when she saw the footprint embedded in a rock.