In late June 2025, an ancient city covering several square miles was discovered beneath Wyoming's Horse Peak mountain. In ...

But their analysis of 475 ancient horse genomes showed a notable change around 4,200 years ago. That’s when a specific lineage that first arose in what’s known as the Pontic-Caspian Steppe, a ...

Ancient migration between wild horse populations in America and Asia show how ecosystems adapt to survive cataclysmic change — strategies that modern forms of conservation may unintentionally ...

Understanding ancient horse migration patterns could help us adapt to climate change. That's according to a new study from a ...

During the late Paleolithic era, as far back as 30,000 years ago or more, ancient artists chose wild horses as their muse: Horses are the most commonly depicted animal in Eurasian cave art.

More than 3,000 years ago, the ancient people of Mongolia were experimenting with equine dentistry, making them the oldest known veterinary dentists on record. The earliest evidence of horse ...

A new study of ancient human remains finds that horse riding may have been common as early as 4,500 to 5,000 years ago. Alan Crowhurst/Getty Images hide caption ...

Ancient DNA of nearly 500 horses reveals that humans didn't domesticate them until 2200 B.C., 1,000 years later than we previously thought. Skip to main content. Open menu Close menu ...

The horses were found "carefully" arranged and had all been "buried simultaneously," researchers said, but there were scarce clues left as to how and why the animals died.

Scientists have discovered that around 4,200 years ago, a specific lineage of horses rapidly became dominant across Eurasia. The discovery was made through the analysis of hundreds of ancient ...