Present-day equids, including horses, donkeys, and zebras, have only a single toe. The leftover original middle toe on each foot is encased within a thick-walled keratinous hoof. To help absorb ...

The real evolutionary 'step forward' in horse foot anatomy was not the loss of additional toes, but the evolution of the 'spring foot'. This pogo-stick type of foot anatomy evolved in the three ...

The team also show that the feet of one-toed horses have a different ... Paper: 'Hipparion tracks and horses' toes: the evolution of the equid single hoof' by Alan Vincelette, Christine Janis ...

When a horse gallops, there is a moment when all its feet leave the ground — the moment ... Horses are a model for understanding the evolution of bodily forms, so this result could help tease ...

Despite a recent hypothesis that part of these digits was retained in the horses' foot, a peer-reviewed study published by a research team from the UK, US, and the Netherlands in the journal Royal ...

The first result obtained is the proof of the multiple nature of the evolution of the horse during the American Oligocene and Miocene periods. Instead of a single series, as formerly supposed ...

“Native Horse” looks at the evolution of horses in North America by placing Indigenous Lakota science alongside ground-breaking DNA research. Today, new discoveries in Western science have ...