Posted on 01/28/2011 9:11:30 PM PST by One Name
Topeka — About 80 million years ago, the Pteranodon longiceps flying reptile would not have been powerful enough to swoop down and successfully nab the big Xiphactinus audax fish.
In a bid to be designated the official state fossil, though, don't count the pteranodon out yet.
On Monday, state Reps. Tom Sloan, R-Lawrence, and Don Hineman, R-Dighton, introduced a bill to declare the fossil of the Xiphactinus audax the official fossil of the state of Kansas. The bill's genesis came from Sloan's constituents.
On Wednesday, Sloan said, he started hearing views that the more fitting state fossil was the pteranodon.
Hineman's heard those arguments, too, and he indicated Thursday there could be a change.
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Fossil fish Capital of the World... Kemmerer, Wyoming.
I'll bet that sells a lot of postcards.
Thats a pretty good Yarn..
I detect a little “the earth is only 7000 years old”, or am I mistaken?
You get past 20 years ago and I loose track and get suspicious..
If the third person on this planet didn't come from two non-gay others..
You MUST make up a bodacious Yarn instead..
No problem, several people have done just that..
I’m curious to hear your theory.
I believe Genesis to be accurate, but containing gaps into which many possibilities can be placed, only one of which actually occurred.
I’m not sure yet quite which one...
Fitting work for a legislature: debating which dead thing they want to represent them.
I thought it ironic and insulated from the bigger picture.
I wish for a world where those were actually the only problems we need to iron out.
Kemmerer is a little town between Rock Springs (another little town) and Jackson (little town but famous for Jackson Hole ski area and rich area). Nice little 9 hole golf course and small museum. Not very flashy and a little out of the way.
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