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Traveling Trunks
 
Traveling Trunk
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The traveling trunk includes many educational items.
Hagerman Fossil Beds offers our amazing traveling trunk. The traveling trunk was developed to help teachers bring the wonders of the Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument a little closer to students and assist them in better understanding and appreciating this tremendous resource.

Trunks are geared for grades 4-6 or 7-12 and include:
casts of horse skulls, soil samples, books, videos, and curriculum guides. It provides a variety of information about Idaho, as well as paleontology and geology.

Teachers may borrow them for up to one month. There is no charge for their use. The only cost is the return shipping.


Reserve a trunk today!

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Suckerfish fossil being prepped for removal to the lab.

Did You Know?
The Hagerman Fossil Beds paleontology crew has made some unusual finds. Early one summer the field crew found an articulated skeleton of a suckerfish (family Catostomidae) which was later jacketed and brought back to the lab for cleaning and study.

Last Updated: September 12, 2010 at 15:19 MST