Every year, snakebites kill tens of thousands of people worldwide. The reason many survive is antivenom and horses play a central role in making it. By carefully exposing horses to small amounts of ...

Horses can smell your fear. If you are experiencing this emotion while standing near a horse, they will be able to detect it through your scent alone, which changes their behavior and physiology. That ...

The bond between horses and humans goes back a long way: the animals have played a central role in our species' expansion around the globe, as well as their long and storied use in warfare – even as ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Ask a person to picture someone with asthma, and despite famous asthmatic athletes including David Beckham and Emmitt Smith, they’ll likely picture a knobby-kneed kid clutching ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. First-of-its-kind research happening at Temple Grandin Equine Center shows therapy services do not increase the horses' stress ...

It is in the epilogue of his latest book that equine geneticist Ludovic Orlando delivers one of his biggest take-home messages: “[T]he horse,” he writes, “remains what it has been for almost our ...