Paleontologists have named a new species of flying dinosaur after a 9-year-old girl.

The girl, called Daisy Morris, found the fossil when she stumbled across it on the Isle of Wight, UK.

Then she took it to the dinosaur expert Martin Simpson who has painstakingly studied the fossil with more experts for fives years.

The team has focused on even the smallest of details, and eventually announced last week that the fossil belongs to a pervious unknown type of crow-sized pterosaur.

To pay tribute to its finder, the newly-discovered dinosaur is named after Daisy.

Daisy, different from most children of her age, has been obsessed with collection of fossils.

Her mom said: “ If we are in the car and we go past an animal that has died, she'll ask me to stop so we can pick it up and she can take it home. She'll put them under a crate in the garden and let it decompose.”"It just shows that, continuing a long tradition in paleontology, major discoveries can be made by amateurs, often by being in the right place at the right time," Martin Simpson said.