An eight-year-old boy has found a set of 160-million-year-old dinosaur footprints on a Yorkshire beach. Dinosaur-mad Rhys Nichols found the perfectly preserved 23cm tracks on a rock near his home near Scarborough. Rhys said, “I picked up a stick and saw the prints and was quite shocked so I called my Dad, who said ‘Wow!’” Dad Richard took a photo on his mobile phone. It’s thought the tracks could belong to a plant-eating creature which lived during the Jurassic era.

Rhys, who’s in Year Three, said he was very pleased with his find because he wants to be a dinosaur expert — a palaeontologist — when he grows up. “Dinosaurs are my favourite thing,” he told Newsround.