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By Kristine McCarty This post was written by a recipient of a Wanda Chin Scholarship to attended the 2013 Annual Meeting  I never wanted to work in a museum. Not that I was against it—the thought had just never occurred to me. Almost two...

NEW RESOURCES Now available: an Idaho Virtual Museum. “Most of the items on display are from the Idaho Museum of Natural History collections, but a few of the dinosaur bones are from the Natural History Museum of Utah. Items on display include dinosaur...

Idaho's own native shark is set to take a bite out of visitors to the Idaho Museum of Natural History. Officials at at the museum on the campus of Idaho State University are getting pretty excited about unveiling a new exhibit featuring the Whorl Tooth...

I can hear it now – most people are reading the title of this post and scratching their heads.  ”WHAT is a helicoprion?” Helicoprion is the official name of what is also called the “buzz saw shark” – a prehistoric extinct species of shark that now only...

Photographs by Basia Irland (unless otherwise noted) I flood. That is what I — and all my cousins — do from time to time. It is part of our rhythm. In their hubris, humans build cities and towns right on our banks, then get upset with us when our waters...