Does your state have an official state dinosaur?

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Manitoba has an official fossil (Mosasaur) but surprisingly Alberta which is home to most of Canada’s fossilized dinosaurs doesn’t have an official fossil or official dinosaur.

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Dammit. Hit reply too soon.

Here’s ours. Just look at that magnificent bastard:

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Dawwww! Ours is a teeny tiny 50-foot-long brachiosaur:

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Once the kids get involved, stand back!

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Illinois may not have a state dino, but we do have a state fossil, the Tully Monster

It has the wonderful aspect that we don’t quite know what it is.

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We got one of the cool ones!

In fact, the Colorado Rockies mascot is Dinger the Dinosaur

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Okay, technically every state in the union has a state dinosaur.

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Everything’s bigger in Texas.

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Alaska: hold my beer.

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Suciasaurus rex under consideration in Washington, based on a femur found in the San Juans.

And no, your legislators better not let down a bunch of elementary students.

(We already have the Columbian Mammoth as state fossil…)

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And here I thought the New Jersey official state dinosaur was our NYC-centric public transit system.

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Virginia doesn’t have a state dinosaur. We do have a state fossil. Chesapecten jeffersonius. It’s a scallop. :pensive:

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New York has a six foot long sea scorpion relative as the state fossil but no state dinosaur.

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Steggy was always my favorite as a kid.

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New Mexico

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South Carolina

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I’m British so I don’t have a state, but we do have an official state dinosaur.

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Checks out.

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