Forget State Birds: South Carolina Makes Woolly Mammoth its State Fossil

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Forget State Birds: South Carolina Makes Woolly Mammoth its State Fossil
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The woolly mammoth is **w the state fossil of South Carolina, thanks to a third-grader.

Following months of pushback in the South Carolina Senate from creationist state legislators who opposed the idea, Gov. Nikki Haley designated (http://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess120_2013-2014/bills/4482.htm) the Columbian mammoth as the official state fossil last week.

See also: Scientists Introduce 'Chicken From Hell' Di**saur to World (http://mashable.com/2014/03/19/chicken-from-hell/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)


Olivia McConnell, an 8-year-old history and science enthusiast, wrote a letter (http://www.cbsnews.com/news/8-year-old-takes-on-south-carolina-lawmakers-in-fossil-fight/) in January to Sen. Kevin Johnson (http://www.scstatehouse.gov/member.php?code=0947727159), when she found out that South Carolina had ** official state fossil, according to CBS News. McConnell knew that one of the first fossils found in **rth America was an ancient woolly mammoth in South Carolina, so she thought it would be a good candidate for the state's official fossil. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/05/21/south-carolina-state-fossil-woolly-mammoth/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)

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