Forget
State Birds: South Carolina Makes Woolly Mammoth its
State Fossil
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 the Columbian
Mammoth as the official
State Fossil last week.
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Olivia McConnell, an 8-year-old history and science enthusiast,
wrote a letter in January to
Sen. Kevin Johnson, 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.
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