A dark brown mustang named Alpine stands between human visitors and his 12-member band. His is one of the dozens of bands that make up the roughly 500-horse Alpine herd in the Apache-Sitgreaves ...

GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA—According to a statement released by the University of Florida, researchers have sequenced the mitochondrial genome of a sixteenth-century horse using DNA extracted from a tooth ...

Hunter-gatherers in southernmost South America integrated horses with Spanish pedigrees into their societies around 400 years ago, long before Europeans occupied that region, a new study suggests.

A hugely popular breed in the US, these beautifully marked horses excel in myriad disciplines. These colorful horses are descended from those introduced by Spanish explorers, wild mustangs, and cow ...

Track descendants of colonial horses roaming Corolla today and learn how to protect them. Colonial Spanish Mustangs survived shipwrecks and swam onto the shores of the Outer Banks over 500 years ago.

A horse is a horse, of course, of course. That is, of course, unless the horse is a colonial Spanish horse. Then it is on its way to becoming the "official" horse of Arizona. With only one dissenting ...

I was not at all pleased to see Brett French's article on the Pryor horses and the Billings BLM's veiled threats to remove Cloud and other Spanish- colored palomino horses from our only herd left in ...

A newly identified 16th century horse specimen is among the oldest domestic horses from the Americas known to date, and its DNA helps clarify the history of horses in the Western Hemisphere, according ...