Four-year-old Lily Wilder was walking her dog with her father when she made an unusual discovery on a Welsh beach after noticing a perfectly preserved dinosaur footprint left 220 million years ago. The area is a protected site known for its fossils, but no one had previously noticed this footprint on a low stone in perfect view for the child, according to Welsh authorities. The rock will be taken to the Cardiff National Museum, and Wilder’s name will be listed as the official “finder.”
Wilder, who loves dinosaurs according to his mother, described the discovery. “She was on a low stone, at shoulder height for Lily, and she just saw her and said, ‘Look, Daddy,'” her mother Sally Wilder, 41, told NBC News. “She’s very excited, but she doesn’t quite understand how amazing she is.”
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