For most of human history, horses have been, primarily, a technology. An intimate technology, yes -- people named their horses, and groomed them, and sometimes loved them -- but horses were, for the ...

The 2026 Harding Distinguished Lecture will explore the deep history of horses and their role in shaping human societies across South Dakota and the American West.

Horses are magnificent creatures. The oldest ancestors of wild horses evolved nearly four million years ago and ran in large herds across grasslands. It was believed that the Spanish were among the ...

For the first time, a research team from the Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Paleoenvironment at the University of Tübingen and the Schöningen Research Center have reconstructed the genomes ...