(2010). Postcranial Functional Morphology of Hyracotherium (Equidae, Perissodactyla) and Locomotion in the Earliest Horses Journal of Mammalian Evolution DOI: 10.1007/s10914-010-9145-7 ...

New Scientist traces the course of horse evolution and breeding from their ... This artist’s impression depicts the dawn horse or Hyracotherium, considered by palaeontologists to be the earliest ...

Of course, this hypothetical game of Evolutionary Would You Rather belies the complex process of evolution ... ranging from the extinct Hyracotherium all the way up to the modern Equus.

Most early horses sported three full-sized toes touching the ground, with the Eocene era’s Hyracotherium boasting four front toes like the modern tapir. While their three toes touched the ground ...

During the Eocene Epoch, the oldest known horse, Hyracotherium, was about the size of a small dog, but horses look much bigger today. On the fossil record, paleontologists have seen mixes of evolution ...

The animals, such as the Eocene Hyracotherium, had feet like those ... notion that these toes really have been completely lost in evolution, not somehow retained within the hoof, as proposed ...

For millennia, humans have bred them for brawn, speed and even cuteness. New Scientist traces horses from their origins to the first cloned racehorse. See more in our gallery here. Receive a ...