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

Yet, despite their enormous impact, horses were surprisingly late to join the ranks of domesticated animals, only about 4,500 ...

Across human history, no single animal has had a deeper impact on human societies than the horse. However, when and how people domesticated horses has been an ongoing scientific mystery. As they ...

Catching wild horses is a sport as old as history. In North America, horses arrived with the Spanish explorers and eventually, some got loose. The original horse chasers were Indians, who had already ...

But those early horse ancestors disappeared from the American archaeological record around 6,000 years ago. In the new study, scientists examined about two dozen sets of horse remains from sites ...

This article was originally featured on The Conversation. Across human history, no single animal has had a deeper impact on human societies than the horse. But when and how people domesticated horses ...

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Young horse training plans and workloads must match their skeletal development. Failing to plan around growth plates can ...