Eating horses was never officially forbidden by the Church, but many medieval Christian sources called the practice imp ...

Titanium bone implants could be the answer. Hansen wants to test a new type of titanium implant that can be attached to the horse's remaining leg bone. Special coatings mean that the bone will ...

Elizabeth Hall holds the leg bone of a horse that is 765,000 years old. A paleontologist for the Yukon government, Hall helped extract the fossil from a Yukon gold mine during her first far-north ...

Looking at a horse's delicate limbs, it's a wonder that those bones can put up with any sort of pressure at all. Equine bones are very tough, but fractures still happen. When they do, even the ...

What inspired early humans to first ride a horse? Rather than build a time machine to ask our ancestors, archaeologists are ...

To fix a broken bone on any animal, the break must be immobilized. But immobilizing a horse brings a host of challenges. Horses are restless and skittish.

New York State and Cornell University to collaborate to use advanced imaging to prevent thoroughbred horse ... The study will target early hints in the horses’ leg bones and in their blood ...

Partial horse leg bones found in southern Argentina (shown here) contributed to new evidence that Indigenous groups incorporated these animals, introduced by Spanish colonists in the 1500s, into ...

A broken leg can be a death sentence for a horse. Because horses have so little soft tissue in their legs, broken bones often tear through skin or cut off circulation to the rest of the limb ...