Horsepower profoundly shaped human societies - altering the way people moved around, traded goods, communicated, farmed and fought. And while the history of the combustion engines that eventually repl ...

Why Australia's most maligned native animal needs our protection.

The beginning of AI is often placed with the discovery of sperm by the Dutch scientist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek and his assistant Johannes Hamm in 1678.

DNA analysis reveals how ancient horse breeding prioritized calm temperament before selecting for rideable bodies.

Kheiron Biotech, the Argentine company that created the horses, says gene-editing has the potential to revolutionize horse breeding.

Argentina, widely regarded as the global capital of polo, has welcomed cloning and other breeding innovations. But CRISPR is different – for now.

Domestication of the horse was one of the crowning achievements of early humans. It led to advancements in transportation, ...

In a landmark achievement for Sri Lankan science, a team of local researchers has identified Culex (Lophoceraomyia) ...

To make horses rideable during domestication, people may have inadvertently targeted a mutation in horses to strengthen their backs and their balance.

Now, a sweeping new study of ancient horse DNA offers a precise answer: a genetic quirk in a single gene, called GSDMC, helped turn skittish animals into the creatures humans could saddle and ride.

Horses have played a critical role in shaping human society, but scientists are still piecing together the story of their ...

Even though betting on races was illegal in New York at the time, fans turned out in droves to watch the little dark brown ...