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 ...

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 ...

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.

New analyses of bones, teeth, genetics and artifacts suggest it's time to revise a long-standing hypothesis for how humans domesticated horses. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

Palmer said a horse can quickly go from just having a broken leg to having a broken leg and another that cannot be stood on due to the pain. "The hoof is attached to the bone by organic fasteners ...

A leg injury can lead to complications as the animal’s other legs try to carry its weight, which can sometimes exceed half a ton. And the bones often shatter during such injuries, making it ...

Over the past 20 years, archaeozoological data seemed to converge on the idea that horses were first domesticated in sites of the Botai culture in Kazakhstan, where scientists found large quantities ...

In 2019, they discovered remains of three amputated legs at the site. The dig was then interrupted due to the coronavirus pandemic. Eva Collignon, a Belgian archaeologist, said the latest bones ...

A leg injury can lead to complications as the animal’s other legs try to carry its weight, which can sometimes exceed half a ton. And the bones often shatter during such injuries, making it ...