REUTERS/Oswaldo Rivas NEW YORK (Reuters) - Speed, smarts, and the heart of a champion: using genomic analysis, scientists have identified DNA changes that helped turn ancient horses such as those ...

Ancient cave paintings that seemed to depict make-believe white-spotted horses might have been drawn from real life, scientists now find. The cave paintings of the Stone Age are not only among the ...

Ancient migration between wild horse populations in America and Asia show how ecosystems adapt to survive cataclysmic change — strategies that modern forms of conservation may unintentionally ...

If you ask today’s average American to name an image of a horse in ancient Greek culture, a likely response could be the Trojan Horse, the flying stallion Pegasus or the equestrian parade from ...

Like the roughly 2,000 people and countless animals in Pompeii in 79 AD, the horse probably died instantly when an enormous plume of ash engulfed the ancient Roman city after one of the most ...

More than 3,000 years ago, the ancient people of Mongolia were experimenting with equine dentistry, making them the oldest known veterinary dentists on record. The earliest evidence of horse ...

But their analysis of 475 ancient horse genomes showed a notable change around 4,200 years ago. That’s when a specific lineage that first arose in what’s known as the Pontic-Caspian Steppe ...