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Some fossils are just too cool. And slightly tragic. A 48 million year old fossil from the Messel beds of Germany fits this category well, preserving a mare with her unborn offspring. Beyond macabre fascination, however, what do these fossils tell us? … Continue reading
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This mare won a blue ribbon at a horse show in Wateloo, Iowa, August 1939.Photograph by J. Baylor Roberts, National Geographic
This mare won a blue ribbon at a horse show in Wateloo, Iowa, August 1939.Photograph by J. Baylor Roberts, National Geographic
Off-duty work horses trot across a dry wash in the Sierra Baguales in Patagonia, Chile, February 1960.Photograph by Kip Ross, National Geographic
A young North American girl jumps her horse over a ditch in Mexico, May 1914.
Photograph by Shirley C. Hulse, National Geographic