Massachusetts residents have no shortage ofstate symbolsthrough which to celebrate their regional devotion . There ’s a nation polka birdcall ( “ Say Hello to Someone From Massachusetts ” by Lenny Gomulka ) , a state dessert ( Boston cream pie ) , and even a statedoughnut(also Boston cream ) .
Now , Massachusettsstate legislator Jack Patrick Lewis is buttonhole for another one : statedinosaur . As Boston.comreports , Lewis has foster a Passion of Christ for prehistoric brute ever since seeingThe Land Before Time(1988 ) in his spring chicken , and he ’s hoping an official state dinosaur will help fellow Bay Staters con about the area ’s former history .
Lewis haschosentwo species to consider for the appellative . ThePodokesaurus holyokensisis a 3 - to-6 - foot carnivore whosefossilswere unearthed around Mount Holyoke in 1910 . Mignon Talbot , the woman who made the discovery , was the first woman to ever name a newfound dinosaur . ThePodokesaurus ’s competition is theAnchisaurus polyzelus , a slightly bigger herbivore whose ivory were located in Springfield , Massachusetts , more than half a C earlier .
“ Neither are the immense animals we see in pic , neither are a family name , but they are two species that we have found in Massachusetts , found by people who last here and work on here , and their fogy remains exist here , ” Lewis told Boston.com .
Before he files the legislation on January 15 , he ’s asking the public to weigh in on which dinosaur deserves the honour . Though thepollis primarily mean for people who either endure in or have some connecter to Massachusetts , it ’s technically open for anyone to vote .
Not only is Lewis ’s initiative an exciting prospect for dinosaur - loving New Englanders , but it ’s also a great style to get people ( especially kids ) imply in the legislative procedure . If the bill does eventually authorize , Massachusetts wo n’t be the first to claim a state dinosaur — Maryland , Wyoming , and severalother statesall have one , too .
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