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New analyses of bones, teeth, genetics and artifacts suggest it’s time to revise a long-standing hypothesis for how humans domesticated horses.
With warm weather in Australia, should we be worried too?
Horses crossed the Baltic Sea in ships during the late Viking age and were sacrificed for funeral rituals according to a new study.
A controversy involving one of the world’s best dressage riders highlights the need for more protection of horses in equestrian sports.
How we treat other animals is important for us, for them, and for the entire planet.
Horse fossils are abundant and widespread across North America. Scientists often use their long history to illustrate how species evolve in response to a changing environment.
Horses naturally synchronise their running in groups – but ‘racing’ and ‘winning’ are human concepts.
Too often our discussions of brumbies don’t consider the darker aspects of the horse’s role in Australian history.
The findings suggest that the depth of the relationships Viking-age people had with animals have been dramatically underrepresented.
Horses and humans share biological similarities that lead them to suffer from similar endocrine and orthopedic diseases. A number of treatments that work for one species often work for the other.
Fireworks can frighten wild and domestic animals, start wildfires and affect some people’s mental health.
European colonists chronicled their version of how Indigenous peoples lived with horses. New collaborative research adds scientific detail to Indigenous narratives that tell a different story.
It hasn’t been clear how common the species was on the Cape south coast because its body fossils are predominantly from southern Africa’s west coast.
Young queer people growing up in rural areas don’t necessarily need to flee their communities to find safety and acceptance.
When it comes to our ethical duties to animals, representation and respect should go hand in hoof.
Since antiquity people have harnessed sound as a weapon, and the practice continues – in new high-tech ways – today.
We’re all aware of the benefits from living with a pet. But over the last decade dogs, horses and cats have been helping people in many new ways as well - including recovery from addiction and trauma.
Horses are the supreme athletes of the large mammal world – here’s a look at the reasons why they can run so fast and jump so high.
It’s more evidence a lab leak is very unlikely.
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Professor of Animal Behaviour and Welfare, University of Sydney
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Professor, Management and Organizational Studies, Huron University College and Coordinator of Animal Ethics and Sustainability Leadership, Western University
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Professor in Terrestrial Ecology, Deakin University
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Head of the Equine Centre, Associate Professor of Equine Medicine and Surgery, The University of Melbourne
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Adjunct Associate Professor in Equine Exercise Science, Charles Sturt University
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Reader in Equitation Science, Nottingham Trent University
