To make horses rideable during domestication, people may have inadvertently targeted a mutation in horses to strengthen their backs and their balance.

The domestication of the horse marked a major turning point in human history, paving the way for spectacular advances in transportation, conflict, and agriculture. This unique relationship ...

How did horses become some of the greatest athletes in the animal kingdom? Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine may have found the answer, pinpointing a genetic mutation and evolutionary process that ...

The domestication of horses is a much more recent even compared to other domesticated species; horses were domesticated about 4,500 years ago... | Genetics And Genomics ...

In 2018, a perfectly-preserved foal was pulled from the permafrost in Siberia. It's discovery, along with another horse from ...

Published in Science, the new study reveals how a rare genetic mutation in the KEAP1 gene allows horse cells to turbocharge their energy production while also ramping up their built-in stress defenses ...

Domestication of the horse was one of the crowning achievements of early humans. It led to advancements in transportation, warfare and agriculture, effectively galloping societies into the modern era.

Horse power may have revved up about four millennia ago. Horses were domesticated at least twice, researchers report June 6 in Nature. Genetic data suggest Botai hunter-gatherers in Central Asia may ...

A new genetic study examining the ancestry of the park herd found they are most closely connected to large draft horse breeds, and show little Spanish mustang influence. Some horses at Theodore ...