9-Year-Old Girl Gets Dinosaur Named After Her, Makes All Other Children/Adults Jealous
Daisy Morris, Dinosaur Hunter via BBC4-year-old Daisy Morris found some bones while strolling on the beach--a few years later, she now has a pterosaur named after her. A few years ago, while strolling down a beach on the Isle of Wight (a small island in the English Channel), 4-year-old Daisy Morris stumbled on something unusual. She'd always been interested in dinosaurs, and had started hunting for fossils a year earlier with her mother. But this looked a bit different--blackened bones sticking out of the sand that didn't look quite familiar. She took them to an archaeologist who discovered that the bones were fossils from the early Cretaceous period, about 100 million years ago, and that they belonged to a previously undiscovered creature. Four years later, the study was published in PLoS One, explaining that the bones came from a small species of pterosaur, a flying dinosaur, which has been named...