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"Major discovery"? Foreign media: A 4-year-old girl in the UK found dinosaur footprints from 220 million years ago

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[Global Network Report Reporter Bian Zihao] Britain's 4-year-old girl has a "major discovery"? According to the National Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) local time reported on the 30th, a 4-year-old girl in the United Kingdom found a 220 million-year-old dinosaur footprint on the beach in South Wales, and it is extremely well preserved, which makes paleontologists around the world excited.

"Major discovery"? Foreign media: A 4-year-old girl in the UK found dinosaur footprints from 220 million years ago

Dinosaur footprints found by a 4-year-old girl Image source: Foreign media

The girl, Lily Wilder, was found walking on a beach in South Wales with her father and pet dog.

"It 's [the footprint] is on top of a low rock, as tall as Lily's shoulders." Lily's mother, Sally Wilder, told NBC on the 30th. "And then she saw [the footprints] and said, 'Daddy look.'"

According to the analysis of the head of the paleontology exhibition hall of a museum in Wales, the dinosaur that left this footprint is about 75 centimeters high and 2.5 meters long, and it is impossible to identify what species it belongs to. "It's really superbly preserved... You can see the details of the muscles, as well as the location of the joints of the feet. The person in charge said.

"Major discovery"? Foreign media: A 4-year-old girl in the UK found dinosaur footprints from 220 million years ago

Screenshot of NBC report

The report also mentioned that Lily enjoyed watching dinosaur TV shows and collected a lot of toys and models. She told NBC that her favorite is the T-Rex.

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