These are the x-rays of a Standardbred weanlings that was kicked in the upper rear leg. The wound was open and infected and the tibia was fractured. The horse recovered completely and will begin ...

Elizabeth Hall holds the leg bone of a horse that is 765,000 years old. A paleontologist for the Yukon government, Hall helped extract the fossil from a Yukon gold mine during her first far-north ...

Horses' legs are very hard to fix when they break (Getty Images) By. Olivia Solon; 13:55, 9 Oct 2014 Updated 15:08, 9 Oct 2014; When a human breaks a leg, it’s eight weeks in a plaster cast, a ...

Looking at a horse's delicate limbs, it's a wonder that those bones can put up with any sort of pressure at all. Equine bones are very tough, but fractures still happen. When they do, even the ...

When she was 12, a veterinarian told Niki Hansen her beloved quarter horse named Power would probably die. Skip to content. Close. Back America's Newspaper. 1. Subscribe.

To fix a broken bone on any animal, the break must be immobilized. But immobilizing a horse brings a host of challenges. Horses are restless and skittish.

The third metacarpus bone in the horse's leg supports much of the force conveyed as the animal moves. One side of the cucumber-sized bone has a pea-sized hole where blood vessels enter the bone.

Most of the bone changes in habitual horse riders occur at the muscle, tendon and ligament attachment sites in the thigh bones and pelvis. Other changes can include: deformations in the diameter ...

The third metacarpus bone in the horse's leg supports much of the force conveyed as the animal moves. One side of the cucumber-sized bone has a pea-sized hole where blood vessels enter the bone.

The fossilized horse bones were found in the Zanda Basin, in southwestern Tibet, near the Himalayas. ... The new find included a majority of the horses' bones, including its legs.

When a human breaks a leg, it’s eight weeks in a plaster cast, a bit of physio and you’re back in business. When a horse breaks a leg, it’s usually game over. Who can forget the shocking ...