Present-day equids, including horses, donkeys, and zebras, have only a single toe. The leftover original middle toe on each foot is encased within a thick-walled keratinous hoof. To help absorb ...

The real evolutionary 'step forward' in horse foot anatomy was not the loss of additional toes, but the evolution of the 'spring foot'. This pogo-stick type of foot anatomy evolved in the three ...

To retrace the evolution of horse toes, McHorse and colleagues used CT scans to capture the internal structure of fossilized foot bones from 12 kinds of extinct horses. They also analyzed the feet ...

Similarly, ancient horse ancestors once had just as many toes as we do — five, for most of us — but gradually lost them over time, until they ended up with just one big toe on each foot.

The team also show that the feet of one-toed horses have a different ... Paper: 'Hipparion tracks and horses' toes: the evolution of the equid single hoof' by Alan Vincelette, Christine Janis ...

When a horse gallops, there is a moment when all its feet leave the ground — the moment ... Horses are a model for understanding the evolution of bodily forms, so this result could help tease ...

Despite a recent hypothesis that part of these digits was retained in the horses' foot, a peer-reviewed study published by a research team from the UK, US, and the Netherlands in the journal Royal ...

The first result obtained is the proof of the multiple nature of the evolution of the horse during the American Oligocene and Miocene periods. Instead of a single series, as formerly supposed ...