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Originally Posted by jinx
Hey! Get your own animal!
And the trilobite is ours too ffs...
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Oh, be-haaaave! Maybe it's a different species anyway. There were hundreds throughout the long age of the Paleozoic.
California's:
State Animal: Grizzly Bear,
Ursus californicus. So designated decades after the last native one had been killed in 1922.
Bird: California Quail
(Lophortyx californica)
Fish: Golden Trout
(Salmo agua-bonita). They've been more successful with the trout than with the bear, cultivating more of them in hatcheries and extending their range even into other states. Maybe it would be easier if bears laid eggs.
Flower: Poppy
(Eschsholtzia californica) orangey-yellow in color.
Fossil: Sabertooth
(Smilodon californicus)
State (Gold Rush, mind you; there's a Silver Rush one too) Ghost Town: Bodie. "Man from Bodie" is a regionalism for "really bad dude."
Benitoite is a very rare blue rock, and the state gemstone. State mineral is gold.
It's all
listed here.