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1oregonobsessionz
Apr 7, 2014, 9:18 am

As reported in the Daily Beast . . .

2southernbooklady
Apr 7, 2014, 9:40 am

Americans are so batty about evolution. Why? What is it about the theory that makes them lose their shit so badly?

3BruceCoulson
Apr 7, 2014, 11:03 am

And here I thought the creator of the fossil was the wooly mammoth, which had the courtesy to die in a way to leave remains to be found.

Of course, my state already has a state fossil (the trilobite).

4.Monkey.
Apr 7, 2014, 11:12 am

>2 southernbooklady: That's a rather absurd statement; it's not "Americans," it's religious zealots, biblical literalists.

5southernbooklady
Apr 7, 2014, 11:18 am

>4 .Monkey.: It seems like a specifically American phenomenon, though. What's the figure that people are always citing? That a third of Americans "don't believe in evolution"?

http://phys.org/news/2014-01-americans-dont-evolution.html

Those aren't all religious zealots. It seems like a cultural thing.

6jjwilson61
Apr 7, 2014, 12:01 pm

3> My state's official fossil is the saber-toothed tiger. How cool is that!

7southernbooklady
Apr 7, 2014, 12:07 pm

My state doesn't have one, I don't think.

8BruceCoulson
Apr 7, 2014, 1:54 pm

Smilodons are a sore subject in my state...

http://apps.ohiohistory.org/ohioarchaeology/finding-a-saber-tooth-cat-in-ohio/

But I have a stuffed one...

9varielle
Modificato: Apr 7, 2014, 7:42 pm

Despite having our state legislature overrun by teabaggers, North Carolina did manage to make the megalodon shark's teeth our state fossil last year. I think this is just so we can look down on our neighbors to the south. http://www.netstate.com/states/symb/fossils/nc_megalodon_shark_teeth.htm

10Sandydog1
Apr 8, 2014, 9:29 pm

>4 .Monkey.:

Crazy, but true. Americans truly are bat-shit crazy.

My State's fossil is the genus Eubrontes, presumably E giganteus. Actually, it's not a true fossil, it's a track mark, NOT made in the very early Jurassic.

'Made rather, when this ponderous carnivorous lizard set foot off the Ark...

11lilithcat
Apr 8, 2014, 9:31 pm

A state fossil? Seriously? Doesn't the legislature have anything better to do with their time?

12Sandydog1
Modificato: Apr 13, 2014, 7:38 pm

I was right about the species! 'Still can't figure out they did in that damn wooden boat, along with Anomoepus, Gigsandipus, Anchisauripus and about of a trillion of their favorite couples

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._state_fossils

And yes jjwilson, Sabre Tooth Cat is really, really cool!

All us Yankees could come up with, is a slab of muddy shale.

13Sandydog1
Modificato: Apr 8, 2014, 9:49 pm

>11 lilithcat:

But Joan, you've got such great fossils over there.

OK, Tully Monsters are admittedly kinda lame (even more lame than a footprint).

But you've got...Crinoids!

http://www.isgs.uiuc.edu/?q=outreach/geology-resources/crinoids

14BTRIPP
Apr 15, 2014, 10:40 am

Over the past few decades, certain Fundamentalist Xtian groups have made a point of both being very visible in support (or opposition) of particular politicians, and have been VERY adamant in having those they support "toe the line" on a number of Biblical Literalist stances.

Now, it is POSSIBLE that the folks these groups have managed to help elect are full-bore whackjobs who actually believe the whole menu of fundy nutjobbery, but I'm a cynic who suspects that it's more that the politicians in questions know what side their electoral bread is buttered, and when the lobbyist from the Fundy NutJob Front calls up with "suggested" legislative stances - especially in cases as peripheral and "symbolic" as this - they say "glad to be of service", and remind them of where to send the check.

Personally, I have never been able to understand how ANYBODY without some sort of brain damage can actually believe in the big two monotheisms, so it makes it hard to understand how these people get to be elected to anything, but those mythologies are so big in certain areas that if you don't at least give them lip-service, you've got no chance. Fortunately, in the U.S., the Xtian fundies are less likely to butcher non-believers ... although I'm pretty sure they look at Islamic Fundamentalism's bloody hand with a certain wistful longing.

15varielle
Apr 15, 2014, 12:14 pm

Based on yesterday's news you might be wrong on that last point.

16Sandydog1
Apr 16, 2014, 9:37 am

Hey, Vermont's got the Beluga Whale, the same genus and species that frolics about in the Canadian Arctic coasts, today.

(Don't tell those Fundies about this Green Mountain State phenom. They'll think those fossils got there by some kind of very,very recent flood).

17Sandydog1
Modificato: Apr 16, 2014, 9:41 am

> 7

Megalodon! Of course. NC really should have a cool 5-inch long giant shark's tooth as its state fossil.

I noticed that these guys do paleontological study outreach:

http://www.ncfossilclub.org/

I hope they've never gotten stoned...

18paradoxosalpha
Apr 17, 2014, 11:59 am

>3 BruceCoulson:

Hooray, Trilobites!

19Sandydog1
Modificato: Apr 17, 2014, 9:22 pm

Yeah, I luv those "bugs"! 'And not a one of these, is ever mentioned in Genesis:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_trilobite_genera

You know, I think Utah should have chosen Elrathia (ie, E Kingi) instead of Allosaurus. Thousands of women wear those precious little trilobite earrings and necklaces.

When has anyone ever worn an allosaurus necklace?

20JGL53
Apr 22, 2014, 2:15 pm

The state fossil of both Mississippi and Alabama is the Basilosaurus, a genus of early whale that lived 40 to 34 million years ago in the Late Eocene.

Anyone here have any problem with that?

21BruceCoulson
Apr 22, 2014, 2:23 pm

We're going to need a bigger boat?

22MyopicBookworm
Apr 22, 2014, 6:29 pm

Anyone have a state fungus yet?

24Sandydog1
Mag 12, 2014, 10:30 pm

I think every state should have an official non-vascular plant.

25Helcura
Mag 13, 2014, 5:35 am

>24 Sandydog1:

Why not? Such things are harmless and provide lovely little research projects for elementary school children.

I nominate Pleopsidium flavum for Colorado, as I have fond memories of finding it as a child - it's a nice pretty yellow color.

26rastaphrog
Mag 13, 2014, 10:08 am

>24 Sandydog1: Some states you might have trouble finding someone other than a science teacher or major who even knows what that is.

27Yamanekotei
Mag 13, 2014, 11:14 am

I would like to nominate Physarum polycephalum for California. This mold can solve a maze, and it would be perfect to have it with a state motto "Eureka!" :-D

28JGL53
Modificato: Mag 13, 2014, 12:02 pm

Some state legislator in N.Y.put up a bill to make yogurt the official state snack and several other legislators stood up to question it. The guy was flummoxed but soldiered on and the bill passed with something like 8 votes against.


I am not making this up:

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/letterman-stewart-mock-ny-senates-...

29Sandydog1
Mag 15, 2014, 7:48 pm

I don't even know if it's found there, but I was thinking Psilocybe baeocystis for California. You know, in honor of the 60s.