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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, ...
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 ...
May 11, 2023 Researchers are working to identify genes that influence horses' tendency to react to perceived ...
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 America compared the genomes of Thoroughbred, ...
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 ...
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 humans than horses kept in individual paddocks. The ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...