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Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument Visitor Center

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Cheryl
April 7, 2021
Where can you see one of the world’s oldest horses? At Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument. Hagerman is home to over two hundred different species of fossil plants and animals. They have everything from mastodons to the history-making Hagerman Horse. With over 3,000 new fossil fragments found each year, it is one of the most fossiliferous Pliocene-aged sites in the world!
Where can you see one of the world’s oldest horses? At Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument. Hagerman is home to over two hundred different species of fossil plants and animals. They have everything from mastodons to the history-making Hagerman Horse. With over 3,000 new fossil fragments found eac…
Melinda
July 22, 2020
The skeleton of the first horse?? How cool!
Feathered Winds Wine
February 20, 2014
See Fossils at the Natl Park office, See Oregon Trail Wagon Wheel tracks.
Eric
February 20, 2021
Did you know that horses evolved in North America? The Hagerman horse, Equus simplicidens, is the first true one-toed horse. It's the park's most famous fossil, but we have fossils from over two hundred other species too! From the saber-toothed cat, mastodon, bear, camel, and ground sloth, to smaller animals like rodents and frogs, the scientific study of Pliocene fossils is the key to Hagerman.
Did you know that horses evolved in North America? The Hagerman horse, Equus simplicidens, is the first true one-toed horse. It's the park's most famous fossil, but we have fossils from over two hundred other species too! From the saber-toothed cat, mastodon, bear, camel, and ground sloth, to smalle…
Ashley
August 4, 2020
Haberman Fossil beds.
Location
17970 N State St
Hagerman, ID