#horse evolution

[corgi-nub]

Last sketch of tonight's stream.

It's Eohippus! Because 2026 is the year of the horse :3

[sakurastallion]

The best part about being autistic with a horse special intrest is DYING on the hill of “mustangs actually fit the american environment and should be considered reintroduced”.. you cant convince me otherwise, why do cows and sheep deserve the land more? capitalism..

rapid fire question! what in 10,000 years changed in the horse that left america for eurasia to make it different from the ones domesticated? 10 seconds!

[horse-is-a-horse-of-course]

Those photos confirm that horses were the first terrestrial life. They were the first vertebrates to leave the primordial oceans and walk on land.

[skyheartstar13]

[cellar-whales]

Eohippus, Mesohippus, Hyracotherium. Extinct but still listed in the Wikipedia page, evolution of the horse. Merychippus, Pliohippus. What does it mean to be extinct, when your descendants still live and breathe and run?

Anchitherium, on its own small page, says this. "... probably represented a side-branch of horse evolution that left no modern descendants." Extinct all the same, and yet... what does it mean to be extinct when your descendants lie with you?

Farewell, Pliohippus. Farewell, Anchitherium. But it's a different kind of goodbye.

[heyilike]

@stormleviosa is here to tell you all about some horsey sciencey news, in the episode that inspired the podcast!

Find us on all of your favourite podcast platforms.

[the-void-is-sapphic]

Horses are perpetually flipping everything off

[paleoart]

Evolution Series: The Conquest of Horses

Horses represent one of the most adaptable and resilient lineage of mammals, evolving from tiny forest-dwellers to fast-running grazers along with the expansion of grasslands in North America. 

*The animals represented here are not to scale and don’t represent a direct line of descent, but rather plausible models for how this amazing transition happened.*

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