Horses Lived in the Americas for Millions of Years – New Research Helps Paleontologists Understand the Fossils We’ve Found and the Fossils Missing from the Archive
Many people assume that horses first came to the Americas when Spanish explorers brought them here about 500 years ago. Recent research has even confirmed a European origin for horses associated with people in the American Southwest and Great Plains. But those weren’t the first horses in North America. The family Equidae, which includes domesticated … Read more