As a monarch, you are asked to do a wide variety of things - including inspecting a horse painted to look like a skeleton. That was the task that befell Britain's Queen Elizabeth on Tuesday ...

Champion horserider Gillian Higgins teaches horse anatomy by painting the inside of a horse on the outside of a horse. 22 October 2009 • 8:56am Gillian Higgins during the four-hour task of ...

With 205 bones and 700 muscles the horse is a challenging animal for anatomy students to study. That was until champion rider Gillian Higgins came up with the novel idea of showing people how it ...

The room is rounded out by a horse skeleton (#3) and a small lesson on horse anatomy where kids can see how they measure up (#4). The boys in the third-grade class at Tuesday’s premiere loved the next ...

The city block where the skeleton was found used to be a place for horses 200 years ago. It was the site of the Spanish Dragoon Barracks. A dragoon "basically is a man on a horse with a gun," said ...

Essentially, this horse was most likely part of the colonial Spanish cavalry in St. Augustine. LaPorta believes – based on the skeleton's small size – it was a horse called a Marsh Tacky.

I bought it from someone who had used it to teach anatomy and was emigrating. He had a sheep and a horse; I ended up paying £500, and I’m really glad I went for the horse, not the sheep.