Horses News
April 19, 2024
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Mar. 27, 2024 — Understanding the structure of proteins is critical for demystifying their functions and developing drugs that target them. To that end, a team of researchers has developed a way of using machine ...
Mar. 22, 2024 — Archaeological analysis of a near unique animal cemetery discovered in London nearly 30 years ago has revealed there was an international horse trading network, orchestrated by the elites of late ...
Jan. 18, 2024 — The new theoretical research proposes that animal size over time depends on two key ecological ...
Dec. 12, 2023 — Recovered from looters, a new archaeological discovery from a cave in western Mongolia could change the story of the evolving relationship between humans and horses around the ...
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Feb. 14, 2024 — Some people from an ancient community in what is now northern Italy were interred with animals and animal parts from species such as dogs, horses and pigs. The reasons remain mysterious, but might ...
Nov. 8, 2023 — A ground-breaking new study has found carbon emissions from Australian alpine peatlands to be much higher in areas disturbed by feral ...
June 21, 2023 — The distant ancestors of modern horses had hooved toes instead of a single hoof, which vanished over time, according to ...
May 30, 2023 — A new study has found that genetic improvement is underlying the increasing speed of Britain's thoroughbreds. This contrasts with earlier studies that suggested racehorses were showing no genetic ...
May 11, 2023 — Researchers are working to identify genes that influence horses' tendency to react to perceived ...
Apr. 25, 2023 — New research shows us that age-old interactions between people and their horses can teach us something about building robots designed to improve our ...
Apr. 25, 2023 — A new study shows that horses living in big enclosures and in groups of at least three horses are better at following directional indications from ...
Mar. 30, 2023 — Indigenous peoples as far north as Wyoming and Idaho may have begun to care for horses by the first half of the 17th Century, according to a new study by researchers from 15 countries and multiple ...
Mar. 3, 2023 — Researchers have discovered evidence of horse riding by studying the remains of human skeletons found in burial mounds called kurgans, which were between 4500-5000 years old. The earthen burial ...
Dec. 13, 2022 — A critical set of genes linked to successful racehorses has been identified by an international research team. Scientists from Asia, Europe, North ...
Earlier Headlines
Aug. 25, 2022 — A new study shows that horses can be more reluctant in new situations if they have multiple riders, have had several owners or the horse has been with its current owner only for a short period of ...
Aug. 25, 2022 — Research supports the belief that the most important factor affecting a thoroughbred's race performance is the quality of its sire, whereas the effect of the age of its broodmare is ...
Aug. 17, 2022 — A Rutgers scientist aiming to help heal a sick horse created an ultra-sensitive DNA test that could have applications for difficult-to-detect illnesses in humans such as Lyme ...
Aug. 9, 2022 — When racehorses enter training at about 2 years old, they can develop tiny stress fractures and new bone formations in their legs. This condition, called bucked shin, occurs in about 70% of the ...
July 27, 2022 — Feral horses have roamed freely across the island of Assateague off the coast of Maryland and Virginia for hundreds of years, but exactly how they got there has remained a mystery. In a new study, ...
July 27, 2022 — A newly identified 16th century horse specimen is among the oldest domestic horses from the Americas known to date, and its DNA helps clarify the history of horses in the Western Hemisphere, ...
May 24, 2022 — How we speak matters to animals. Horses, pigs and wild horses can distinguish between negative and positive sounds from their fellow species and near relatives, as well as from human speech. The ...
May 12, 2022 — A vaccine for eastern equine encephalitis virus (EEEV), western equine encephalitis virus (WEEV), and Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus (VEEV) was found to be safe, well-tolerated and induced a ...
May 11, 2022 — The movement of herders and livestock into the eastern steppe is of great interest to researchers, but few scholars have linked the introduction of herds and horses to the rise of complex ...
Apr. 6, 2022 — Unregulated commercial harvesting and recreational live collection are pushing Florida horse conch populations closer to ...
Mar. 2, 2022 — As of today, there is no vaccine against hepatitis C. To improve the search for it, researchers are looking for a so-called surrogate model: an animal that can also suffer from viral hepatitis and ...
Feb. 24, 2022 — New research has uncovered an unrecognized variant of the Hendra virus, prompting re-evaluation of spillover risk from horses and their carers to other ...
Jan. 26, 2022 — Researchers have developed a prototype 'smart saddle' that could help equestrians improve their biomechanics. Moreover, the self-powered saddle can alert others when a rider takes a ...
Jan. 10, 2022 — Medieval warhorses are often depicted as massive and powerful beasts, but in reality many were no more than pony-sized by modern standards, a new study ...
Dec. 8, 2021 — Mere spoonsful of soil pulled from Canada's permafrost are opening vast windows into ancient life in the Yukon, revealing rich new information and rewriting previous beliefs about the extinction ...
Oct. 28, 2021 — Cerebral palsy (CP) affects around two out of every 1000 children born worldwide. Physical therapy is the foremost way of improving movement, balance, and posture in children with CP. Research has ...
Oct. 20, 2021 — The modern horse was domesticated around 2200 years BCE in the northern Caucasus. In the centuries that followed it spread throughout Asia and Europe. An international team of 162 scientists ...
Sep. 16, 2021 — A new study has found the antimicrobial properties of certain stem cell proteins could offer a potential treatment to reduce infection in skin ...
Sep. 15, 2021 — The long-distance migrations of early Bronze Age pastoralists in the Eurasian steppe have captured widespread interest. But the factors behind their remarkable spread have been heavily debated by ...
May 18, 2021 — A new study of ancient DNA from horse fossils found in North America and Eurasia shows that horse populations on the two continents remained connected through the Bering Land Bridge, moving back and ...
Thursday, August 25, 2022
- Long-Term Relationship With Owner Reduces Horses' Stress Reactions in New Situations
- Race Performance of Thoroughbred Horses Determined by the Quality of the Male Parent Rather Than the Age of the Female, Study Finds
Wednesday, August 17, 2022
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Wednesday, July 27, 2022
- Oldest DNA from Domesticated American Horse Lends Credence to Shipwreck Folklore
- Ancient DNA Clarifies the Early History of American Colonial Horses