Gov. Charlie Baker was a dinosaur child.
“The thing that got me interested in science in the first place is dinosaurs,” Baker stated to an viewers on the Museum of Science in Boston throughout a ceremony to signal laws naming the official dinosaur of Massachusetts.
“The main reason they got me interested was because of their majesty and ferocity and their almost alien being status. As a kid, they just created wonder,” he continued.
“I think it’s very good that our lizard is very fast,” he stated. “Because that one is very big.”
“Our” lizard, because the governor put it, was ceremoniously signed into officiality Wednesday. Baker truly signed the legislation making it so in May. The signing ceremony was held within the shadow of the museum’s Tyrannosaurus Rex mannequin and close to an outline of the state’s new extinct mascot.
Weighing in at round 90 kilos and measuring about 6 toes lengthy, Podokesaurus holyokensis, or the swift footed lizard of Holyoke, truly earned the “state’s official” title final yr following an “official state dinosaur” election contest.
The small carnivorous theropod was first found close to Mt. Holyoke in 1910 by scientist Mignon Talbot. Talbot is now well-known for being the primary lady to call and describe a dinosaur.
Talbot discovered solely a single specimen dated to the early Jurassic Period, about 200 million years in the past. That specimen was sadly misplaced in 1917, when a fireplace destroyed the constructing housing it. No different specimen has ever been discovered.
The thought of naming a state dinosaur was began by state Rep. Jack Lewis as a approach to assist youngsters study concerning the legislative course of in the course of the pandemic. Baker stated Wednesday that dinosaurs have the facility to trigger curiosity in youngsters.
“I remember working on projects when I was in elementary school about dinosaurs,” Baker stated, including that the bygone creatures had been, “a big part of what got me interested in so many things.”
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