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Horses are our members thousands of years. Although it has captured the people, are still noble, proud beings, willing to meet with the Graces and the most hardest tasks, depending on what stage of development is just humanity were: plowed field, fight, pull the costs and wear on the back of their people. For centuries the horse was the only means of transport, and cheap labor, nowadays behave mainly horses and ponies for their entertainment. Try to treat them kindly

Today's breed of horses are bred from their long vyhynulych great-prapredku. Idea of how these predecessors of today's horses looked, you can do thanks to the findings of petrified skeletons and trace how the incredible fifty to sixty million years to develop.

Developments in serem ago

The oldest known is the degree of development, according to present knowledge Eohippus, who lived in the North American Eocene (Tertiary older) - which is about 55 to 38 million years. As early as the Eocene descendants prakopytniku formed by two large systems - Equines-and biungulates. Eohippus is often referred to as the dawn horse ever, even though the tap measured only about as much as today's fox. He lived in the woods and swamps,and so its evolution along the direction necessary to survive in this environment. He had four fingers on the front legs, three on the back and pads like a dog to be able to move better and nenapadneji on soft soil. He had small teeth with low crowns fitted sheets for grazing and other low vegetation, and the rounded back. As a protection against predators was probably only protective coloration.

The remains of this prakone appeared in 1840 to world-renowned paleontologist Owen and gave him the name Hyracotherium. Regardless of that was discovered in 1867 in the U.S. Wyoming prakone complete skeleton, which was named Eohippus. Although it was found that in both cases is the same type of horse, for an explanation of how a development could occur on the type of two continents,contributed to the theory of time after 2 World War II, the movement of continents.

Another development in the Eocene precursor horses were new genera Orohippus and Epihippus. Their bodies have been slimmer - it is estimated that individuals of both genera weighed an average of 5, 5 kg and were 36 cm tall. Eyes or teeth still nepripominaly today's horses. In terms of survival was better equipped Epihippus, because he was a better pohyblivejsi processed food.

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