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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dating back before the time of Genghis Khan, Mongolia has represented the genesis of horsemanship. The annual Mongol Derby — ...

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 ...