They are the same species that originated here, and whether or not they were domesticated is quite irrelevant. Domestication altered little biology, and we can see that in the phenomenon called “going ...

Perhaps most importantly, wild horses traverse greater distances (and altitudes) than domestic cattle set out to graze. Cattle tend to congregate and stay near water sources (e.g., stream banks, ...

Biologists distinguish between wild horses — which were never domesticated — and feral horses, which are free-roaming horses descended from domestic horses. There are salient genetic differences ...

These wild horses went extinct about 10,000 years ago ... and persist into the 21st century. ASL One ancestor of modern domestic horses includes the Mesohippus, a small, three-toed plant eater about ...

“There are at least nine million domestic livestock on BLM land,” says Scott Beckstead, the Oregon Director of HSUS. “You’ve got 40,000, roughly, wild horses. So are there too many horse ...

Horses and burros currently roaming the Western landscape are not native to North America. These animals are descended from domesticated breeds brought to North America from Europe. In 1971, Congress ...