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 ...

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.

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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Researchers say that the hooved toes vanished over time, thanks to evolution. Ancient animals, such as the Eocene Hyracotherium, had feet like those of a modern tapir: four toes in front and three ...