Scientists Name New Flying Dinosaur After 5-Year-Old Girl Who Found It’s Fossil

A newly-discovered dinosaur species has been named after the little girl who stumbled across its remains on an Isle of Wight beach when she was just five years old.

Palaeontologists announced this week that fossilised remains found on a stretch of Isle of Wight beach in 2008 had been finally identified as a new species of flying dinosaur.

The remains were discovered by Daisy Morris, who, now aged nine, has amassed a collection of fossils and animal remains so extensive it led one expert to describe her bedroom as ‘resembling a natural history museum.

The flying dinosaur has been named: Vectidraco Daisymorrisae after the little discoverer.