Like dogs and horses, goats can discern happy from angry facial expressions. But whether these animals possess empathy remains unclear.

Researchers studied 3,000-year-old skeletal remains from Mongolia to understand the origins of veterinary dental practices.

Strong winds and heavy rain can sometimes wash the animals out to sea, but shortages of fresh drinking water and food are more worrisome as sea levels rise.

How a robber baron and an eccentric inventor solved a millennia-old question about horses.

Archaeologists unearthed the remains in a farm north of the doomed Italian city.

Scientists have identified a new genus of extinct horse that lived in North America during the last ice age. 

Speciation and development of new traits may not always go hand-in-hand.

Researchers reveal how seals affect vegetation patterns and influence the movement of feral horse populations on Sable Island in Canada.

What researchers are learning as they sequence, map, and decode species’ genomes

What researchers are learning as they sequence, map, and decode species’ genomes

By sequencing the genome of a 700,000-year-old horse, researchers have pushed back the time of DNA survival by almost an order of magnitude.