There’s a good reason for why Maine’s state fossil is a primitive plant and not a species of charismatic megafauna.
This story was originally published in February 2024.
Maine’s state fossil is Pertica quadrifaria, a plant that lived nearly 400 million years ago during the Devonian period, fossilized remains of which were discovered in 1968 in Baxter State Park. S... [2472 chars]