House bill would make giant beaver Minnesota’s state fossil
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Milk and blueberry muffins, honeycrisp apples, “Grace,” ice hockey, L’etoile du Nord, and “Hail! Minnesota.”
Each is among 19 state symbols in the Land of 10,000 Lakes. A 200-pound creature that inhabited some of those waters could up the symbol total to 20. Sponsored by Rep. Andrew Myers, R-Tonka Bay, H.F. 791 would designate Castoroides ohioensis, better known as the giant beaver, as the official state fossil.
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