Genomic analysis of stilt-legged horse remains suggest the species, now named Haringtonhippus francisci, isn't closely related to any living equine population. The genus Haringtonhippus likely ...

The new genus was named Haringtonhippus francisci, which is derived from the name of Canadian paleontologist Richard Harington, who first studied the fossils in the early 1970s. At the time ...

Scientists are calling it Haringtonhippus francisci after Richard Harington, an accomplished paleontologist who spent his career studying the ice age fossils of northern Canada and first described ...

The researchers say their discovery alters the known family tree of North American horses, by revealing the new genus — Haringtonhippus francisci — as an evolutionary dead-end, unrelated ...

francisci, within it but the classification ... rather representing a new extinct genus called Haringtonhippus. Eric Scott New World stilt-legged horses previously had been thought to be related ...