Horses are part of a group of animals called ungulates. Ungulates are animals with hooves. The ungulates are seperated into two groups. Perissodactyls are ungulates with an odd number of toes and artiodactyls are ungulates with an even number of toes.

Horses are most closely related to tapirs and rhinos. Both tapirs and rhinos are perissodactyls.

In ancient times horses were very small, they were an average of 14 inches tall. We can see that they probably weren't very useful.

The biggest horse ever stood 6.5 feet at its withers. His name was Brooklyn Supreme, he was a purebred Belgian stallion. Look at this picture of him.

That is one big horse. It probably wouldn't have been very fast but it probably would have been good at ripping trees from the ground.

Horses have been a big part of history for a long time. Did you know that horses werent native to America they were brought over by the Spanish. They were stolen during indian raids and used to hunt by the indians.

Yes, without horses america wouldn't have been the same

 

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