We're broadcasting live from Boise, Idaho. Hagerman’s Horse is an extinct member of the horse kind that was found in North America. Fossil specimens of the American Zebra (all of them discovered in Hagerman, Idaho) date to about three million years ago, during the late Pliocene epoch. I did! - … It is now extinct . Actually, we went to the fossil . The Ranger was very helpful and provided an area map to guide us to the Hagerman Fossil Beds.

Expansion: lived in Middle Pliocene to Late Pleistocene (North America). Hagerman horse (Equus simplicidens Cope, 1892). Matt Shanley/AMNH Ancient Horses. We will be discussing this extinct variant and considering whether it should be its own species at all. Deer Park Bucks score 1st place in Motor Hose Class B at the Hagerman Tournament on 9/3/2016! 3.5 million year old sediments at the Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument in Idaho contain the world's richest known fossil deposits from the late Pliocene epoch (200 horse skeletons have been recovered at the Hagerman Fossil Beds, 20 of which are complete). The tarpan (Equus ferus ferus), also known as Eurasian wild horse, was a subspecies of wild horse. Ancient Origins Horse Diorama. The earliest known horses evolved 55 million years ago and for much of this time, multiple horse species lived at the same time, often side by side, as seen in this diorama. Species: E. simplicidens. And Idaho, you may not know, is not only famous for its potatoes. The last individual believed to be of this subspecies died in captivity in the Russian Empire during 1909, although some sources claim that it was not a genuine wild horse due to its resemblance to domesticated horses. The illustration of Equus Simplicidens--also known as the Hagerman Horse--is by Roger Hall. Order: Perissodactyla Family: Equidae Genus: Equus. You can check out more of Roger's work at ... How Did The Native Americans Get Horses? Most of the skeletal parts of the Hagerman horse have descriptive placards. Hagerman’s Horse was first discovered by Edward Cope in 1892 and given the name Equus simplicidens. Some 10 million years ago, up to a dozen species of horses roamed the Great Plains of North America. The Hagerman horse fossil was designated the official state fossil of Idaho in 1988.

Also known as the Hagerman Horse, the American Zebra (Equus simplicidens) was closely related to the still-extant Grevy's Zebra (Equus grevyi) of eastern Africa, and may or may not have sported zebra-like stripes. Hagerman "Fossil Dig" A child's learning display, a sand box with buried simulated fossils for the child to discover. All State Fossils. I'm sure the children deligh in finding the old bones.