POCATELLO, Idaho (KIFI) – A late-night glance at his inbox almost caused Leif Tapanila to fall out of bed. Looking at the screen of his phone, the director of the Idaho Museum of Natural History and ...

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 ...

The brilliant iridescent hues found in ammolite come from tiny air gaps in the fossils’ layers, a new study finds. By Alexa Robles-Gil Millions of years ago, squid-like creatures called ammonites swam ...

Skeleton season may be just around the corner, but the skeleton age dawned with the early Cambrian Period, about 538 million to 506 million years ago. In this time span, most major animal groups ...

Idaho State Professor L.J. Krumenacker’s artistic reconstruction shows how an ancient dinosaur, whose fossil was found in Eastern Idaho a few years ago, may have looked. A Journal of Paleontology ...

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 Horses, among many ...