I imagine several of you have gone fossil hunting

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3. Ironically, AL is possibly the most fossiliferous state in the Union.

I found my first fossil in a streambed on the side of Green Mtn about 50 years ago -- a fat section of a crinoid stem. Archimedes stems soon followed, as did corals, blastoids and brachiopods, a lone scolecodont jaw and a section of a straight cephalod shell (the latter two soon stolen). Most of that streambed has now been filled with buried pipe and filled over.

Farther south, the official state fossil, Basilosaurus (pka Zeuglodon), a misleadingly named fossil whale, was found back in the nineteenth century:

The species B. cetoides is the state fossil of Alabama[82] and Mississippi.[88][89] During the early 19th century, B. cetoides fossils were so common (and sufficiently large) that they were regularly used as furniture in the American South.[90]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilosaurus

Yet only a minority of Alabamans -- including college graduates -- believe in natural evolution.