The largest and tallest horse on record was a Shire gelding called Sampson (later renamed Mammoth), who measured 21.5 hands and nearly 3,000 pounds (1360 kg) in 1846.

Images of horses adorn some of man’s earliest art. One of the oldest depictions of horses is in the Cave of Pont d’Arc in ...

If you have ever seen a team of large but sleek-looking horses pulling a carriage, you already know what a Percheron looks like. Percheron horses are a breed of draft horses used in the past for ...

In fact, horses are a diverse species with more than 400 different breeds. Humans first domesticated horses close to 4,000 years ago. In the centuries since then, we have used breeding to evolve ...