Why would you want to disguise a horse as an elephant? Well … war makes people try crazy things.
The Story behind the Ferarri Horse
We’ve all heard of Ferarri, and we recognize the symbol with the horse – but why would a horse be on the logo of a luxury car logo? Well, here’s the story …
The Horse Gallop/Trot Debate of 1872
Leland Stanford, a businessman, former governor, and race-horse owner, hired a man by the name of Eadweard James Muybridge to help him answer two basic questions: 1) Does a horse have all four feet off the ground during a trot? 2) During a gallop, does a horse have its hind legs extended to the rear and its front legs extended …
Chariot Racing: Still Alive Today?
Quite possibly the oldest equine sport, and believed to be the sport that started the ancient Olympic games, chariot racing was made famous in modern times by the 1959 epic film, Ben Hur. And even though this is a very old tradition – can you believe it’s still alive in some parts of the west?
Leonardo da Vinci loved horses
History shows us that Leonardo da Vinci seemed to have been a big fan of horses, and even his rough sketches possess an almost magical lifelike quality, both in their detail and in their perspective.
Jim Key – Smartest Horse that Ever Was
A motherless foal who quickly became attached to his human caregiver (William Key) – the story of Jim Key is one that is not very well known. Jim was able to do math problems, spell names, share his political preferences, and retrieve a coin from the bottom of a large glass jar filled with water. Skeptical audience members could give …
Were you born during the Year of the Horse?
The Chinese calendar uses 12 animals to symbolize each year and oddly enough, one of those animals is the horse! For those people born in 1906, 1918, 1930, 1942, 1954, 1966, 1978, 1990, 2002, 2014 – the Chinese believe these people have unique characteristics as these years are considered “years of the Horse.”
New Fossil Species of Horse Found in Ethiopia
Try to say Eurygnathohippus woldegabrieli. An international team of paleontologists have discovered fossils of a new horse species that was about the size of a small zebra and roamed eastern Africa during the middle Pliocene, around 4.4 million years ago.
Giant ‘Kelpies’ Horse Head Sculptures in Scotland
There’s nothing cooler than stainless steel horse heads. Read a little bit about this masterpiece that is just about finished. Currently in the last stages of construction after nearly 7 years of development, the Kelpies are a pair of gargantuan horse heads by public artist Andy Scott that now tower over the Forth & Clyde canal in Falkirk, Scotland. The …
Scientists Decode DNA Of 700,000-Year-Old Horse
Researchers have found the oldest piece of horse DNA and this will help them understand horse evolution. Unforuntely, it wasn’t enough to figure out exactly what the horse looked like—hair color, for example, will have to wait for further analysis—but it helped the researchers come up with several new ideas about horse evolution.
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