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Daisy Found a Dinosaur

  • June 28, 2013
  • By KIDS DISCOVER

At age 5, Daisy Morris found a new species of dinosaur on the Isle of Wight, where the eroding coastline often turns up fossils on the beach. Wight is known as the “dinosaur capital of Great Britain.” The new type of pterosaur was named Vectidraco daisymorrisae in her honor.

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