Horsepower profoundly shaped human societies — altering the way people moved around, traded goods, communicated, farmed and fought. And while the history of the combustion engines that eventually ...

The horse, a 10-year-old stallion named Bullwinkle, was one of only 200 Banker horses, a breed on the Outer Banks in North Carolina that descended from horses brought over by Spanish explorers. By ...

After it was almost driven extinct, the complete genome from an Endangered Przewalski’s horse has been mapped by a team from the University of Minnesota Przewalski's horse (Equus ferus przewalskii), ...

The newest equine additions to Kazakhstan’s “Golden Steppe” might seem, at first glance, to be unremarkable, with a donkeylike build and a mane that sticks straight up like a zebra’s. But these seven ...

This is the third article in a three-part series on the history of horses in China, which we’re running to usher in the Year of the Horse. Read Part 1 and Part 2. Dawn has broken on the Year of the ...