A reconstruction of a primitive horse the size of a small dog has revealed that the 48-million-year old creature may have looked like a modern-day badger. The early equid — dubbed 'Propalaeotherium ...

Many people assume that horses first came to the Americas when Spanish explorers brought them here about 500 years ago. In fact, recent research has confirmed a European origin for horses associated ...

Researchers have described two previously unknown mammals based on fossil remains unearthed in Spain. They were horse precursors that would’ve enjoyed the subtropical temperatures in what is now ...

A confluence of unlikely events led to the exquisite preservation of the oldest fossil of a primitive pregnant horse ever discovered. Some 48 million years ago, an equoid mare (Eurohippus messelensis) ...

With its golden creamy colour and spiky two-tone mane, the distinctive Fjord horse is a unique and ancient breed. It combines echoes of wild and primitive horses with a friendly, willing temperament ...

The unique breed lives only in this cold region and feels fine when there are -50°C frosts outside. Massive, stocky and with mischievous mane: Meet the Yakut horses that are not afraid of the most ...

THE author said that he had shown Academy, January, 1891, (p. 91) that not only, as had been long observed, did the Homeric Greeks drive the horse before they rode him, but that the same was true of ...

The fossilized skeleton, discovered in South Dakota, is that of a robust Hoplophoneus weighing about 160 kilograms (350lb) which hunted primitive horses and small rhinoceros. A rare skeleton of a ...