Girl Discovers Dinosaur: 9-Year-Old Dubs New Species Vectidraco daisymorrisae

Some little girls like drawing pictures and climbing trees. Others like discovering new species of dinosaurs? That's right-you heard correctly. At the age of 9, Daisy Morris discovered what scientists have named Vectidraco daisymorrisae or the "Dragon from the Isle of Wight."

Daisy was just 4 when she stumbled upon the fossilized remains of an unknown animal during a family walk on the beach in 2009, according to The Huffington Post. The family lives near the coast of England's Isle of Wight -- also known as the "dinosaur capital of Great Britain."

"She has a very good eye for tiny little fossils," her mother BBC. Daisy apparently first began fossil hunting at age 3. "She found these tiny little black bones sticking out of the mud and decided to dig a bit further and scoop them all out."

The family has donated the remains to the Natural History Museum, and when it came to naming the creature, experts looked to its young finder for inspiration, officially dubbing it Vectidraco daisymorrisae.

A children's book has even been written about her as a result, called Daisy and the Wight Dragon - with the title based on the translation of Vectidraco or Dragon of the Wight, according to The Daily Mail.

"When Daisy and her family brought the fossilized remains to me in April 2009, I knew I was looking at something very special," said Martin Simpson, a Southampton University fossil expert. 

And indeed, they were.