HAGERMAN, Idaho — Long before the Snake River lived between farmland and small towns in southern Idaho, the Hagerman Valley was home to saber-toothed cats, mastodons, 100-pound beavers, Hagerman ...

“This is it?” I said, perhaps a little irritably. I had traveled about 40 miles, hoping to see workers in hard hats and overalls, chiseling away at rock bed as they searched for the next dinosaur bone ...

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A Hagerman horse skull encased in matrix sits next to a modern-day horse skull. Bredehoeft uses today's horse skull as a roap map when removing the sedimentary rock from the fossil using an air scribe ...