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The eohippus was a small but wild horse about the size of a whippet dog and believed to be the forerunner of the modern horse. The woolly mammoth was the ancestor of the elephant with large ...

"19th-Century paleontologists noticed that the ancient ancestors of modern mammals often tended to be smaller; horses, for example, can be traced to the dog-sized Eohippus genus of 50 million ...

That was the slab that had the little eohippus (prints from an ancestor of the horse). I got back down to pull out my chisels, and I thought ‘I already got this far, I might as well pull up.’” ...

The earliest recognised ancestor of horses is Eohippus angustidens, known as the dawn horse. It was a small North American animal around the size of a fox which lived in forests and ate fruits, shoots ...

In other words, they weren’t true perissodactyls, but they were very close to the lineage that spawned the last common ancestor of the horses, rhinos, tapirs, brontotheres, and chalicotheres.

THIS is an amusing fantasy in which a shipwrecked graduate of Yale College is supposed to be cast upon an island, and to hold dialogues with a dapple-grey horse, which refused to acknowledge Prof ...