OLYMPIA, Wash. – Washington state now has an official state dinosaur.
Governor Jay Inslee signed a bill on Friday, May 5th, surrounded by eighth graders who have been lobbying for the designation since they were in fourth grade.
The fossil is the thigh bone of a therapod, a classification of two-legged meat eaters that include Tyrannosaurus Rex and Velociraptor.
The incomplete fossil was found on the shore of Sucia Island State Park in the San Juan Islands and the exact species cannot be determined.
That prompted the name of Suciasaurus Rex.
