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 ...

Mass migration of people across Eurasia around 5,000 years ago could have been driven by advent of horsemanship, researchers ...

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 ...

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 ...

An anxious horse trying his best. Source: Violeta Pencheva/Unsplash Having prey brains, horses are ruled primarily by fear. External stimulation enters their brain via one of the senses and is ...

Smart technology like heart rate monitors for horses and AI-driven gait sensors are driving equestrian sports into the ...

Apple Jax and Apollo,two mini horses at Riding to the Top, a Windham-based horse therapy organization. (Rory Sweeting/Staff Writer) Riding to the Top, a stable in Windham, provides equine-assisted ...

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 ...