A new genetic study examining the ancestry of the park herd found they are most closely connected to large draft horse breeds, and show little Spanish mustang influence. Some horses at Theodore ...

After more than half a century, marsh ponies — a cross between the native Carolina marsh tacky horse and Shetland pony — have adapted to life in the South Carolina Lowcountry. Today, they roam Little ...

Horsepower profoundly shaped human societies — altering the way people moved around, traded goods, communicated, farmed and fought. And while the history of the combustion engines that eventually ...

The mysterious origin story of the wild ponies on Assateague Island might finally be closer to being resolved, thanks to a recent scientific discovery that all happened by chance. The island is a ...

One of the rare spectacles on Exmoor is the gathering of the Exmoor ponies. Every Exmoor pony on the moor is, in fact, owned and not wild as many people believe. The Anchor Herd, for example, lives ...

Marat, an Asian wild horse foal at the Minnesota Zoo, found a new and unexpected mother in Alice, a domestic Pony of the Americas AP Photo/Mark Vancleave Marat, an Asian wild horse foal at the ...