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 ...

They say dogs are man’s best friend, but horses could also claim that title. Horses gave us a way to transport people and goods — literal horsepower. They changed warfare: drawing chariots, carrying ...

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

The bond between horses and humans goes back a long way: the animals have played a central role in our species' expansion around the globe, as well as their long and storied use in warfare – even as ...

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 ...

Humans domesticated horses 1,000 years later than previously thought, first for access to their meat and milk and then for their transportation capabilities, a new study of ancient horse DNA suggests.

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 ...

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 ...