For most of human history, horses have been, primarily, a technology. An intimate technology, yes -- people named their horses, and groomed them, and sometimes loved them -- but horses were, for the ...

In his upcoming book, ‘Hoof Beats: How Horses Shaped Human History,’ William Taylor writes that today’s world has been molded by humans’ relationship to horses Nearly a million years ago in what is ...

Horses first appeared on Earth about 55 million years ago. These “Dawn” horses didn’t look remotely horse-like. They looked more like small deer, with dust-brown coats covered with parallel tracks of ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The advent of horse-based transportation represented one of the seminal moments for humankind, connecting ancient peoples by enabling them to move quickly over long distances ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. COROLLA, N.C. (WAVY) — Along a stretch of ...

For the first time, a research team from the Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Paleoenvironment at the University of Tübingen and the Schöningen Research Center have reconstructed the genomes ...

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 ...

A crowd of families and history enthusiasts came out for a fun and educational day during Horse-Drawn History Day held at the Boyertown Museum of Historic Vehicles. The May 17 event featured hands-on ...

COROLLA, N.C. (WAVY) — Along a stretch of North Carolina’s coast on the shores of Corolla, visitors will find a wild tale ...