For most of human history, horses have been, primarily, a technology. An intimate technology, yes -- people named their horses, and groomed them, and sometimes loved them -- but horses were, for the ...

Horses first appeared on Earth about 55 million years ago. These “Dawn” horses didn’t look remotely horse-like. They looked more like small deer, with dust-brown coats covered with parallel tracks of ...

Families tested their knowledge of horses’ roles in history, crafted paper wagons, watched a live farrier demonstration and listened to horse-themed stories during the Frontier Army Museum’s History ...

Horses are magnificent creatures. The oldest ancestors of wild horses evolved nearly four million years ago and ran in large herds across grasslands. It was believed that the Spanish were among the ...

One animal was so decisive in shaping human history that the eminent historian Reinhart Koselleck proposed it as the sole organizing principle in a schema outlining the world’s three great epochs.

The domestication of horses changed the course of human history, but scientists have tried for years to figure out when and where this crucial event happened. Now, evidence from a new study using DNA ...

Small and stocky with a dark plumed tail, the endangered Przewalski’s horse is the last wild horse species on the planet. Along with their distant cousin, the domesticated horse, they are also the ...

With their distinctive brilliant coloring and a bloodline that goes back almost 100 years to when Adolfo Camarillo bought a horse at the California State Fair, the Camarillo white horses are living ...