August 17, 2024 – 5:49 PM
A 10-year-old girl has found dinosaur footprints dating back more than 200 million years while walking on a beach in Wales. Written by BBC. After he and his mother noticed the footprints 75cm away, they took photographs of them and sent them to the National Museum of Wales.
According to the museum's chief paleontologist, the footprints may have been left by a camelotia. Much less is known about these dinosaurs than tyrannosaurus or triceratops, but they are known to have walked on all fours, were herbivores, and lived in the late Triassic period. According to the paleontologist, they were about three meters tall and about 4-5 meters long.
According to paleontologists, 220 million years ago, Wales was a desert region similar to Saudi Arabia, but as sea levels rose, the area was flooded, creating wetlands interspersed with small islands with a Mediterranean climate.
The first dinosaur footprints were found in the area in 1879, but it’s only in the last decade that the number of new discoveries has really increased. In 2014, a complete dinosaur skeleton was found here, and in 2021, a four-year-old girl discovered another dinosaur footprint.
