Medicine & TechnologyThe shape of the main toe in modern horses differs from that of their three-toed ancestors and may be related to ecological habitat or weight distribution. Continue reading to learn more.
The origins of the feral horses of Assateague Island may finally be revealed thanks to an unexpected discovery. Click here to learn more on how a 16-century horse tooth fragment sheds light on how horses ended up on the island.
Experts from NIH saw promising results from Phase 1 clinical trials of vaccines against a set of mosquito-borne viruses. Read more about the encephalitis vaccine and how the rare disease works.
A headless horse excavated from a town in Germany puzzled experts. A medieval soldier, believed to have served under the Frankish Merovingian dynasty, was buried alongside the steed.
Scientists found 4,500-year-old equid skeletons in Syria that belonged to the hybrid animal called kunga, which is bred 500 years before horses were used in the region.
An aerial survey earlier this year showed that the number of feral horses in Australia's largest alpine national park has fallen but it remained too large to be environmentally sustainable and now they need to be culled.
Przewalski's horses, rare, endangered, and the last known species of wild horse have been found to be alive and thriving in Chernobyl - more than thirty years after a nuclear disaster turned it into a radioactive wasteland.
A new study on ancient genomes reveals insights on the genetic events that signaled the rise, peak, and decline of the Scythians - an ancient civilization known as fearsome warriors on horseback that dominated the Eurasian steppes.