The question at hand is, therefore, whether or not modern horses, Equus caballus, should be considered native wildlife. Are wild horses truly "wild," as an indigenous species in North ... Forstén, A.

Oldest Sequenced Genome Sheds Light on Horse Evolution. News. By Douglas Main published 26 June 2013 ... (which are in the subspecies Equus ferus caballus). Also known as the Asian wild horses, ...

Horses were domesticated some 5,000 years ago and have played a pivotal role in ... theme song goes — but don’t look for such certainty when it comes to tracing the lineage of today’s domesticated ...

Ancient horse’s DNA fills in picture of equine evolution. A 700,000-year-old fossil proves astoundingly well preserved. ... a feral offshoot of domestic horses (Equus ferus caballus) ...

The last prehistoric North American horses died out between 13,000 and 11,000 years ago, at the end of the Pleistocene, but by then Equus had spread to Asia, Europe, and Africa.. Animals that on ...

An endangered species, Przewalski's horse, is much more distantly related to the domestic horse and has a much more diverse gene pool than researchers previously had hypothesized, researchers ...