BOULDER, Colo. — What inspired early humans to first ride a horse? Rather than build a time machine to ask our ancestors, archaeologists are studying changes in human skeletons to discover the world’s ...

Each Thanksgiving, thousands of fancy hat-wearing spectators flock to the New Orleans Fair Grounds Race Course to watch - and bet on - horses careening around the track. Just a few blocks away, ...

Horses have played a critical role in shaping human society, but scientists are still piecing together the story of their domestication. reading time 3 minutes Roughly 4,500 years ago, humans forged a ...

For much of human history, survival and progress depended on how far and how fast people could move. Before cars took over in the 20th century, it was horses that carried humanity forward. They pulled ...