Naturalist pines for vanity plate nixed by Michigan

[jinx]

Hey! Get your own animal!
And the trilobite is ours too ffs...

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Originally Posted by jinx

Hey! Get your own animal!
And the trilobite is ours too ffs...

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.

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Looks like Ohio, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania all intended different trilobite species.

[kerosene]

Here's Colorado:

State Motto: Nil Sine Numine - Nothing Without the Deity
State Nickname: Colorado / Centennial State
State Animal: Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep
State Bird: Lark Bunting
State Fish: Greenback Cutthroat Trout
State Flower: White and Lavender Columbine
State Folk Dance: Square Dance
State Fossil: Stegosaurus
State Gemstone: Aquamarine
State Grass: Blue Grama Grass
State Insect: Colorado Hairstreak Butterfly
State Song: "Where the Columbines Grow"
State Song: "Rocky Mountain High"
State Tree: Colorado Blue Spruce
State Mineral: Rhodochrosite
State Rock: Yule Marble
State Reptile: Western Painted Turtle