January 12, 2011
The Life of a Horse Is Not Much Different Than You and Me - VII
The history of the ancestors of horses is now well known. The earlier ancestors of the horse is called Eohippus. The name Eohippus means dawn horse. Eohippus was a small animal, about the size of a fox. It had four toes on its front feet and three on the hind feet. The Eohippus lived about fifty million years ago in the plains of what is now, the United States.
