The Chinese custom of consuming a medicinal gelatin called ejiao, made from donkey skin, has raised estimates that 6.8 million donkeys will be slaughtered by 2027.

The oldest oldest-known species of the genus Equus is Equus simplicidens, also known as Hagerman horse, Hagerman zebra and American zebra, which appeared about 4 million years ago.

All Equus species are herbivorous grazers. This means that they exclusively survive on plants. In their natural habitats, horses need a lot of open grasslands so they can find enough food.

North America had plentiful mega-herbivores back in the Pleistocene, including not only Equus species and bison but also mammoths and mastodons. Today, ...

Donkeys and mules look a lot alike with their telltale long ears, broad heads, thin limbs, and short manes. Being the offspring of a male donkey (jack) and a female horse (mare), it's safe to say ...

A big, beautiful species gets bigger and more beautiful in "Horses: The Story of Equus," an Australian quasi-docu that charts three steeds' separate paths from pony-hood to jobbing for mankind ...