Walking on the beach, mother and daughter come across dinosaur footprints
A mother and her 10-year-old daughter were taking a leisurely stroll on the beach at Penarth (Wales) when a footprint caught their eye. A story told by the BBC.
Mother and daughter, who had gone in search of fossils, weren't at all expecting to come across the footprints of a large dinosaur. While the area is renowned for its fossil potential, it was no less of a surprise. As Futura-sciences reports, the footprints resembled nothing more than large holes in a sandstone bed. They were half-buried under the beach pebbles.
Thanks to the spacing, shape and regularity of the marks, the experts were able to confirm the presence of the footprints of a long-necked dinosaur called Camelotia. The herbivore, 3 metres high and 4 to 5 metres long, is thought to have lived in this area of England almost 200 million years ago.
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The southern part of England is known for its beaches with fossiliferous potential. Numerous footprints can be seen on the Isle of Wight and at Bexhill-on-Sea.
(MH with AsD - Source: Futura-sciences - Illustration: Unsplash)