the study successfully identified that the horses were likely first domesticated around 5,500 years ago—primarily as a source of reliable milk and meat in the steppes of Central Asia.

But when and how people domesticated horses has been an ongoing scientific mystery. Half a million years ago or more, early human ancestors hunted horses with wooden spears, the very first weapons ...

Horses first evolved in North America ... and persist into the 21st century. ASL One ancestor of modern domestic horses includes the Mesohippus, a small, three-toed plant eater about the size of a ...

Humans have hunted and eaten horses for far longer than we've been riding them. Archeological evidence suggests that we first domesticated horses on the grasslands of Central Asia almost 6,000 ...