There are undoubtedly millions of kids across the world who love dinosaurs, but far fewer who explore remains and fossils themselves, much less have a species named in their honor. But in 2009, then 5-year-old Daisy Morris walking along a beach at the Isle of Wight in the UK stumbled across “tiny little black bones sticking out of the mud and decided to dig a bit further and scoop them all out.” After Daisy and her parents consulted with an expert, the fossil was determined to be the 115 million-year-old remains entirely unknown species of small flying reptile—or pterosaur—that has now been dubbed Vectidraco daisymorrisae .
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