It takes a lot of time, research and usually a lot of excavation to find fossils that have been hidden for 165 million years. These ancient works of art are usually buried deep underground, sometimes hidden in rock layers and hardened sediments. However, if you walk on the beach and come across a dinosaur footprint, you can consider yourself one of the luckiest people on the planet, and Marie Woods is one of them.
Woods, a 29-year-old archaeologist, went to the Yorkshire coast to look for something. At first, she just wanted to find some shells for dinner, but she accidentally found a huge footprint believed to be 165 million years old. This footprint is thought to come from a carnivorous dinosaur. They are carnivorous dinosaurs standing on two legs, much like Tyrannosaurus Rex. This is an incredible discovery. No one knew it was there before.
"I just wanted to catch some shellfish to go home and cook, and I came across this," Woods said of her discovery. "I showed what I found to some paleontologist friends, who had never seen it. This is really exciting. "
Because this huge dinosaur footprint was discovered by two people at different times, and Woods was the one who really brought it to the attention of the scientific community, Taylor and Woods will share the right to this discovery. According to the development of things, this fossil may be studied by researchers to determine more information about the animals that created it, and then it is likely to be finally exhibited in museums in this area. Since the fossil was found in Yorkshire and it is such an important discovery, it is reasonable to leave the footprint fossil in the same area.