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 she left 220 million years ago. The area is a protected site known for its fossils, but no one had previously noticed this footprint that was on a low rock in perfect sight for the child, according to Welsh authorities. The rock will be taken to the Cardiff National Museum and Wilder’s name will appear as its official “finder”.
Wilder, who loves dinosaurs according to his mother, described the finding. “It was on a low rock, at shoulder height, for Lily, and he just saw her and said, ‘Look, Dad,'” his mother Sally Wilder, 41, told NBC News “She’s very excited but she doesn’t understand how amazing it is.”
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