By AP/KWMU
Jefferson City, MO – Missouri may soon have a state dinosaur. Legislation in Jefferson City would bestow the honor on the Hypsibema Missouriensis, a name that loosely translates to "high stride from Missouri."
Fossil records put the beast in Bollinger County in southeast Missouri about 67 million years ago. It was 35 feet long and had a thousand teeth. It was a hadrosaur, and a duck-billed one at that.
Dinosaur hunter Guy Darrough adds the animal was perhaps ten feet tall. A House committee endorsed the official-dinosaur measure Wednesday. The full House will take it up next.