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 ...

This is the dramatic moment two proud stallions faced off in a bloody fight for dominance and mating rights in a herd of wild horses. The Koniks, or Polish primitive horses, reared up on their hind ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...