Imagine walking up to a horse with your heart pounding from a rough day, only to have the animal nuzzle you gently or shy ...

Horse breeding refers to reproduction in horses, and particularly the human-directed process of planned mating of animals. While feral and wild horses breed successfully without human assistance ...

The genomic evidence showed that horses were first domesticated in Central Asia - northern Kazakhstan to be precise - about 5,500 years ago by people from what is called the Botai culture.

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) William Taylor, University of Colorado Boulder (THE CONVERSATION) Across human ...

A horse herder in Inner Mongolia, China, in July 2019. Ludovic Orlando. The domestication of horses is arguably among the most important achievements by early humans, allowing for massive ...

But it was only few decades ago that horses formed the fabric of life all over the world, functioning in everything from transportation to communication, agriculture, trade, and culture.

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FILE PHOTO: Przewalski's horses graze at the acclimatisation enclosure in the early morning hours at the Takhin Tal National Park, part of the Great Gobi B Strictly Protected Area, in south-west ...

Across human history, no single animal has had a deeper impact on human societies than the horse. But when and how people domesticated horses has been an ongoing scientific mystery.