Dinosaur discovery
Imagine how exciting it would be to discover dinosaur tracks Rhys and his find Eight-year-old Rhys Nichols is crazy about dinosaurs and now he has spotted a set of dinosaur footprints that are 160 million years old. Rhys was walking with his father on...
Imagine how exciting it would be to discover dinosaur tracks
Rhys and his find
Eight-year-old Rhys Nichols is crazy about dinosaurs and now he has spotted a set of dinosaur footprints that are 160 million years old. Rhys was walking with his father on a beach near his home, near Scarborough, in Yorkshire, England. His father took a photo, on his mobile
The tracks were perfectly preserved and measured 23cm. Will Watts, an archaeologist from the Scarborough Museums Trust, said it was a great find as dinosaur prints are not normally that clear. They are probably from a plant-eating dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic period and the dinosaur was probably the same size as Rhys. Mr Watts also said that Rhys and his father had done the right thing by just taking a picture. If they had tried to collect them they could have fallen apart.
Rhys is delighted with his find because he wants to be a palaeontologist when he grows up. But when he and his father returned to the spot where he found the prints, they were sorry to see that they had gone, probably taken by someone who collects dinosaur artefacts.
The dino
The dino era, by Isaac Muscat, seven of San Ġwann
Rhys and his find
Eight-year-old Rhys Nichols is crazy about dinosaurs and now he has spotted a set of dinosaur footprints that are 160 million years old. Rhys was walking with his father on a beach near his home, near Scarborough, in Yorkshire, England. His father took a photo, on his mobileThe tracks were perfectly preserved and measured 23cm. Will Watts, an archaeologist from the Scarborough Museums Trust, said it was a great find as dinosaur prints are not normally that clear. They are probably from a plant-eating dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic period and the dinosaur was probably the same size as Rhys. Mr Watts also said that Rhys and his father had done the right thing by just taking a picture. If they had tried to collect them they could have fallen apart.
Rhys is delighted with his find because he wants to be a palaeontologist when he grows up. But when he and his father returned to the spot where he found the prints, they were sorry to see that they had gone, probably taken by someone who collects dinosaur artefacts.
The dino
The dino era, by Isaac Muscat, seven of San Ġwann