The bond between humans and horses dates back thousands of years, and horses occupy a unique position in human life, falling somewhere between working animals and companion animals. Humans have long ...

Long before horses became the engine of empires, they were part of a messy experiment. That is the picture emerging from new research arguing that horse domestication did not begin with a single ...

Everybody loves a good interspecies friendship story. But do the animals in those relationships actually know how their friends are feeling? Some of them might. A new study published in Biology ...

Frontal-facing eyes are a hallmark of predator species. Source: Nesrin Ozturk/Pexels One of the most controversial aspects of my work exploring the relationship between horse and human brains is the ...

CNN — The domestication of horses changed the course of human history, but scientists have tried for years to figure out when and where this crucial event happened. Now, evidence from a new study ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New research argues horse domestication began centuries before the DOM2 lineage spread across Eurasia. (CREDIT: Wikimedia / CC ...

New research shows that horses can be just as meaningful objects of affection for humans as other pets or close human beings. The way people get attached to their horse can now also be reliably ...