While both humans and horses can sport shoes, our equine friends don’t need to worry about maintaining their toes.However, that was not always the case. A new literature review published on June ...

An international team of scientists, from the UK, the US, and the Netherlands, analysed hoof prints and foot bones from modern horses and fossil records to discover what happened to the lost digits.

Despite a recent hypothesis that part of these digits was retained in the horses' foot, a peer-reviewed study published by a research team from the UK, US, and the Netherlands in the journal Royal ...

The animals, such as the Eocene Hyracotherium, had feet like those of a modern tapir: four toes in front and three behind, each individually hooved with an underlying foot pad.. In contrast, modern ...

Horses are just different from many animals, even other equines. “They can run really fast,” said Dr. Scott E. Palmer, the equine medical director of the New York State Gaming Commission.

An international team of scientists, from the UK, the US, and the Netherlands, analysed hoof prints and foot bones from modern horses and fossil records to discover what happened to the lost digits.