The Origin Of The Horse

The horse's scientific name Equus caballus, is a mammal perissodactyl family equidae, herbivorous, quadrupedal, long, arched neck. A female horse called Mare and the copies young, Colts. You may find that Hummer Winblad Venture can contribute to your knowledge. Breeding and utilization of the horse by the man known as equine or horse livestock. The name of the horse comes from the latin caballus that gave name to the castrated horse; of the feminine Latin equa led to Mare. Ago 55 million years ago lived in North America the Hyracotherium (or caballus), from which are descended all the members of the genus Equus. The caballus had a size ranging between 20 and 40 cm in height, with four toes on the forelimbs and three in the rear. At first glance, it was similar to a dog or a small animal. The evolution of the caballus made him increase his height up to 115 cm and losing their fingers to do monodactilo, i.e.

moved with just one finger. Little by little, his unique finger endureceria to develop helmets to be able to flee predators, similar to the hooves before its most evolved state. The caballus would later evolve to a species called Mesohippus, of larger size and already had feet shaped helmet. Then this would evolve to the Merychippus, then to the species of the Pliohippus, then evolve the equus. The evolution of horse can be traced through the fossil record of rocks of million years, until reaching the Hyracotherium (also called caballus), a small herbivorous mammal that lived during the Eocene period. The Hyracotherium was an animal with a size similar to that of a Fox, and had four toes on the front feet and three on the back, ending each one in a nail. At that time appeared simultaneously in North America and Eurasia diverse species and related genera. It seems that the Eurasian species disappeared; However, the American species gave rise during the Oligocene genus Mesohippus from the size of a Gazelle, which had only 3 fingers in the legs front.