New research overturns a long-held assumption that Przewalski’s horses (Equus ferus przewalskii), a rare and endangered animal native to the steppes...
Researchers have long wondered how horses evolved from a five-toed ancestor to the single-toed animal we know today. While it is largely believed that...
An analysis of mitochondrial and nuclear DNA from fossils of extinct New World stilt-legged horses reveals that, contrary to previous findings, these enigmatic...
Plants and the meat of mammoths, red deer and horses were a major part of the diet of anatomically modern humans who lived in what is now Crimea, Ukraine,...
New research led by University of Victoria’s April Nowell reveals surprisingly sophisticated adaptations by early humans living 250,000 years ago in...
According to a group of researchers at the University of Sussex in Brighton, UK, domestic horses (Equus caballus) are able to distinguish between positive...
An international group of paleontologists has discovered a horse-like animal that lived in what is now India during Eocene epoch, about 55 million years...
According to a study reported in the journal Current Biology, horses can communicate with their mobile ears and eyes.
Horses in Navarre, Spain. Image credit:...
An international team of paleontologists have discovered fossils of a new horse species that was about the size of a small zebra and roamed eastern Africa...
Genetic scientists have sequenced and analyzed short pieces of DNA preserved in bones from an early Middle Pleistocene horse that had been kept frozen...
An international team of scientists led by Dr. Tao Deng of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences,...
A team of scientists led by researchers from the University of Florida and University of Nebraska has discovered a correlation between environmental temperature...
An international team of scientists has unlocked the mystery of how horses depicted in prehistoric cave paintings are lifelike in nature, using ancient...
