WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The advent of horse-based transportation represented one of the seminal moments for humankind, connecting ancient peoples by enabling them to move quickly over long distances ...

A horse is a horse, of course, of course, but it probably doesn’t like you. Aside from dogs and cats, horses may be one of the few animals that humans often have close relationships with. This may ...

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 using DNA ...

Researchers found the information by testing horses with photos of happy and angry human strangers Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013. Her work has ...

Horses. To some people, a horse is a beautiful thing, and they love them. I am in the camp that regards them as random bone breakers, possessing four iron-shod clubs designed to deal damage at the ...

From the rise of empires to the birth of global trade, no animal has shaped humanity quite like the horse. Domesticated around 4,200 years ago in the Pontiac-Caspian steppe — or around a thousand ...

Over time, we’ve learned how to read the body language of horses – from understanding whether the movement of its ears, head, legs and tail mean its relaxed, anxious, angry or alert. But it turns out ...

Horses, they’re just like us. There’s no significant difference in the way horses and humans can feel pain when whipped, according to a study published Thursday. The new research used skin samples ...

A new study shows, for the very first time, that horses respond to human emotional cues by integrating the emotional value of the voice they hear with that of the facial expressions they see. Share on ...

New research from ARU Writtle, part of Anglia Ruskin University, has found that most people struggle to recognize when a ...

William Taylor receives funding from the National Science Foundation, the Fulbright Program, National Geographic, the Germanic Academic Exchange (DAAD), and the Max Planck Institute for the Science of ...