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Of all the domestic animals, the horses have been permanently associated with the progresses of human culture and civilization. It boosted human trade, migrations and conquests. The era of the technology let the role of the horse obsolete. The horse was domesticated in the Asian steppes. Today, the genus Equus, compr... |
26 March 2008
11:32 GMT |
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Wild horses (today, only Prjewalski horses are a wild species) prefer the fashion of short tails. Domestic and bewildered horses (read mustangs) wear longer tails. And here comes Summer Breeze, a Kansas mare. There's nothing fake in the image you see. Tail extensions are excluded. This exceptional horse has such... |
10 March 2008
14:06 GMT |
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1.We associate rhinoceroses with the African savannas and the forests of southern Asia. But rhinoceroses appeared in fact in North America 54 Ma ago, from a common ancestor with the horses and tapirs. In time, rhinos diversified in many genera and species. Baluchitherium, which lived 30 Ma ago in Central Asia in a ti... |
22 February 2008
14:06 GMT |
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1. Four millennia ago, the mix between one of the first waves of Indo-Europeans and pre-Indo-Europeans populations gave rise to the Celts, in the (nowadays) southern Germany, between the river Rhine and Danube. The Celts developed a skilled iron metallurgy and this allowed them to produce powerful weaponry. During th... |
9 February 2008
02:26 GMT |
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Today, the word "Iberian" makes you think about Spain and Portugal, but the word comes from the name of an ancient population that inhabited the southern and eastern Iberian Peninsula in Antiquity. Historical sources starting with the 5th century BC describe the barbarian inhabitants of "Hispania", with odd habits an... |
7 February 2008
15:11 GMT |
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The Hittites were mentioned even in the Bible. Their roots started with the Indo-European invasion in Anatolia (Asia Minor, now Turkey) 4,000 years ago. Around 1530 BC, the Hittites already made rapid invasions in the neighboring areas, and destroyed Babylon. By those times, Hittites were a warlike people involved in... |
31 January 2008
14:46 GMT |
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Indeed, rhinos are horses' (and donkeys' and zebras', too) closest evolutionary cousins. And it appears that some horses prove this through their size. Digger, a British Clydesdale, at its 6ft 6in (1.95 m) height at the withers, is Britain's biggest living horse. The horse is only four years old, ... |
28 January 2008
05:40 GMT |
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Assyrians were one of the most warlike people in history, lovers of the violence of the war and hunt. Amongst the people of the ancient Middle East, they were famous for their cruelty. At the peak of its power, Assyria stretched from Egypt to Persian Gulf. Their aggressiveness was partially attributed to their locati... |
26 January 2008
03:44 GMT |
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1. Donkeys are, let's say, a desert horse or zebra. In fact, a zebra species from northwestern Africa, Grevy's zebra, is something intermediary between a donkey and a zebra, whereas a species of Asian wild ass from Tibet, kiang, is something intermediary between horses and donkeys. 2. In comparison to a hor... |
8 December 2007
09:09 GMT |
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Zebras represent a symbol of the African savanna. But, did you know that their evolution (and that of horses and asses) started 54 million years ago, in North America, with Hyracotherium, a fox sized animal with four toed fore limbs and three toed rear limbs? They lived in forests, but 20 million years ago, the clime... |
7 December 2007
02:36 GMT |
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Since antiquity, people have built statues to the animals. This was done for various religious or cultural reasons. For example, the animal could have represented the image of a god or was linked to local myths and legends, like the famous Roman statue of the she-wolf feeding Romulus and Remus, the founders of Rome. ... |
27 October 2007
05:17 GMT |
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It is true that the oldest horse, Hyracotherium, was the size of a fox. And it's equally true that the closest relatives of horses, donkeys and zebras are the rhinoceros. And the world's records in horse sizes do vary from a fox to a rhinoceros. The largest horses in the world belong to the English breed Sh... |
30 July 2007
14:41 GMT |
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Atari (third-party video game publisher) has recently announced that they would publish My Horse and Me for the PC, Wii and DS. My Horse and Me features a realistic and immersive representation of the world of equestrian sports, being developed by W!Games for Wii and PC and by Mistic for the DS. It is said to be the ... |
19 July 2007
02:48 GMT |
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They are part of the history and legend of the austral planes even from the colonial times. These tough and hard men enjoy the vast spaces, grazing the cattle, in a life half spent riding a horse. It all started in the 17th and 18th centuries, when the Spanish started colonizing the Argentinian lands south of Rio de ... |
7 July 2007
10:04 GMT |
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No, this is not about insufficient white paint. Because this is not an incompletely painted zebra. There is no artificial coloring on the animal you see. This a female zorse: her father is a zebra, while her mother is a mare, this being the classical example of how a child receives a mix of genes from both progenitor... |
28 June 2007
06:22 GMT |
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Sushi is an integral part of the Japanese culture. And tuna is the king of the sushi. But the current world shortages of tuna could remove it from Japan's sushi menus, something unimaginable in a country where tuna has as many names as snow for the Eskimals. When global fishing bodies recently started lowering ... |
27 June 2007
03:55 GMT |
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The largest horses in the world are those of the English breed Shire. These horses often bypass the height of 1.8 m (6 ft) and reach in weight one tone (almost as much as a rhino, to which horses and their relatives, donkeys and zebras, are related). Average horses have 0.3-0.4 tones. These draft horses are generall... |
22 May 2007
16:36 GMT |
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You're probably wondering what does a horse's arse have to do with the most modern spacecraft. Well...everything.First, a simple truth. Most of you know the popular saying "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." This is probably the key to this apparently impossible link.1. The railroadFor starters, d... |
28 April 2007
07:05 GMT |
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Since their discovery in 1974 in Shaanxi province, the ancient Chinese terracotta army posed a puzzle: Ancient pollen could lead scientists to the kilns where the figures in China's terracotta army were made. The 2,200-year-old clay army made of 8,099 soldiers, 300 horses and 200 chariots guards the tomb of Qin ... |
27 March 2007
09:36 GMT |
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