It’s possible to catch a glimpse of wild horses off of some of the dirt roads in areas like the Sand Wash Basin in the ...

Horses are beautiful and expressive creatures and one of their most recognizable traits is their famous whinny. The whinny is ...

In 2018, nuclear genomic sequencing revealed that Botai horses were not the ancestors of domestic horses but of Przewalski’s horse, a wild relative and denizen of the steppe that has never been ...

a wild relative and denizen of the steppe that has never been domesticated, at least in recorded history. Next, when my colleagues and I reconsidered skeletal features linked to horse riding at ...

But these are wild as far as we know—and there’s some controversy about this—but as far as we know, the [Przewalski’s horse] was never domesticated by humans. So it’s kind of like the ...

Burials of horses and chariots establish that early domesticated horses were used ... site of Botai are now known to have belonged to a wild horse species, Przewalski’s horse, that was hunted ...

This had a profound impact on the history of mankind, but also on the populations of various horse species. Once humans realized the potential of domesticated ... a species of wild donkey, has ...

Horses were domesticated at least twice ... In just a few centuries, they replaced their wild cousins and became the modern domestic horse. The findings call into question some long-held ideas ...

Perhaps the most puzzling question Jared Diamond encounters as he investigates animal domestication is: Why were no large mammals ever domesticated in tropical Africa? Africa, south of the Sahara ...