A well-preserved dinosaur footprint has been discovered by a four-year-old girl on a Boson, Mass beach


 

(UPI) Lilly Wilders spotted the footprint in stone during an unusually low tide at North Wollaston Beach.  Bendricks Bay, Barry, in the Vale of Glamorgan - and scientists believe it could help establish how they walked.

The footprint, spotted in January, is 220 million years old and had been preserved in mud.

While it is impossible to tell what type of creature left it, the print is 10cm long and likely from a 75cm tall dinosaur.

University of Massachusetts palaeontology curator Cindy Howells described it as "the best specimen ever found on this beach".

    "Lilly saw it when 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 true. I was put in touch with experts who took it from there."

    The dinosaur which left it was described as "a slender animal" which would have walked on its two hind feet and actively hunted other small animals and insects.

    UMass Boson has placed Cindy Howells on unpaid leave for failing to use gender neutral terms while talking to the media and not having a member of the Gender and Race Inclusion Board present during any discussion with the press.   

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