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) ...

The old gray mare, she ain’t what she used to be, says a University of Florida researcher whose findings show that the evolution of horses had more twists and turns than previously thought.

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 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 ...

PROF. WILSON thinks the “bay” filly which Lord Morton says he obtained by crossing a chestnut mare with a quagga was not a hybrid, because he assumes that a chestnut does not contain a bay colour, and ...