Researchers have discovered a new species of fossil horse from 4.4 million-year-old fossil-rich deposits in Ethiopia. About the size of a small zebra, Eurygnathohippus woldegabrieli had three-toed ...

Its origin and what happened to its species had largely remained a mystery ... they're part of a group called Perissodactyla. The animal's lineage and that of modern perissodactyls, ...

Update: The classification of Tapirus kabomani as a distinct species was officially contested in 2014.. In what will likely be considered one of the biggest (literally) zoological discoveries of ...

Zebras vary in size depending on the species. Grévy’s zebra is the largest. It is about 4.10 to 5.25 feet at shoulder height and weighs 776 to 992 pounds. The mountain zebra is slightly smaller ...

Early Eocene fossils suggest that the mammalian order Perissodactyla originated in India. Nature Communications , 2014; 5: 5570 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms6570 Cite This Page : ...

The researchers dated the fossils to about 54.5 million years old, making them slightly younger than the oldest known Perissodactyla remains. But, Rose says, the findings provide a window into what a ...