Long before horses thundered across the plains, a plant-eating giant with hooves of its own left footprints in the mud. Newly ...

Many people assume that horses first came to the Americas when Spanish explorers brought them here about 500 years ago. In fact, recent research has confirmed a European origin for horses associated ...

Largely outshone by fossils of horses, the earliest camels are getting another look from scientists determined to sort out ...

Jim Tynsky of Kemmerer is shown with the 50-million-year-old fossil hyracotherium, an early form of horse, which he found last fall in the dry bed of Fossil Lake. KEMMERER (AP) - Wyoming has lots of ...

It's been buried for more than 2 million years, and now the Museum of Ancient Life at Thanksgiving Point is unveiling a major find. Rick Hunter, a paleontologist with the Museum of Ancient Life, said ...

The earliest known horses lived in North America more than 50 million years ago. These were tiny animals, about the size of a small dog. They had four tiny hooves on each front foot, and three on each ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This specimen is from a prehistoric ...

In central Türkiye’s Kayseri province, researchers are turning to 3D printing to help restore fossils that date back 7.7 ...

Perfectly Preserved' Horse Skull Dating Back to The Ice Age Found In Yukon Mine Permafrost AnIce Age finding has come trotting out from a mine in Yukon, Canada. Researchers have detected the remains ...

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