Following a 2017 report by a goat herder, fossil excavation began near the Yamula Dam in Türkiye's Kayseri. The site has been ...

This theory was partially based on an interpretation of hoof prints from an extinct three-toed horse, Hipparion. This equine is on the direct line to modern horses and the roughly 3.7 million year ...

Horses first evolved in North America. Some of their early ancestors lived 30 – 40 million years ago and were small, three-toed browsers that fed on leaves of woody plants. By the last Ice Age, large ...

This was partially based on an interpretation of the hoof prints of an extinct three-toed horse, Hipparion (not on the direct line to modern horses) from Laetoli in Tanzania 3.7 million years ago ...

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In the middle, a reconstruction of the extinct three-toed horse Hipparion, by Karolina Suchan-Okulska. Overall design by Morales-García. Press release issued: 21 June 2023. The distant ancestors of ...