15-07-28 Bo Le was a famous expert in the physiognomy of horses in ancient China. His book On the Physiognomy of Horses was a classic piece of work on that subject. Bo Le had a son who wanted to learn his father's special skill and knowledge. He read the boo...

15-06-23 The beginning of the day held so much promise, with hundreds of perfectly-coiffed guests filing in for the biggest event of the race calender, heels intact and fascinators in place. 英国一年一度的皇家阿斯科特赛马会刚刚开始时，人人满怀期待。数百名精...

14-09-16 The student of Wang Liang said he could go a thousand li a day with his horses pulling the chariot. But the student of Wang Liang questioned, The two horses on the side are swift horses that can go a thousand li a day. And the two horses in the midd...

14-08-05 Horses are sensitive to the facial expressions and attention of other horses, including the direction of the eyes and ears. The findings, reported in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on August 4, are a reminder for us humans to look beyond our...

13-09-25 During the spring and autumn period, there was a man in the state of Qin whose name was Sun Yang. Sun Yang was very expert in looking at horses and judging their worth, whatever the horse might be, he could tell whether it was good or bad at first s...

13-04-25 Master Pfriem was a short, thin, but lively man, who never rested a moment. His face, of which his turned-up nose was the only prominent feature, was marked with small-pox and pale as death, his hair was gray and shaggy, his eyes small, but they gla...

12-11-02 Tendon（腱） injuries affect athletic horses at all levels. Researchers from the University of Connecticut are studying the use of stem cells in treating equine（马的） tendon injuries. Their findings were published Oct. 16 in the Journal of Animal...

12-05-08 New research indicates that domestic horses originated in the steppes（大草原） of modern-day Ukraine, southwest Russia and west Kazakhstan, mixing with local wild stocks as they spread throughout Europe and Asia. The research was published 07 May,...

12-03-05 Global warming could make humans shorter, warn scientists who claim to have found evidence that it caused the world's first horses to shrunk nearly 50 million years ago. 科学家警告说，全球变暖可能会使人类变矮。科学家宣称已经找到证据：近5000万年前全...

10-06-03 The same mutated gene that makes humans more susceptible to the potentially fatal West Nile virus is also responsible for the virus affecting horses, according to scientists at the University of Adelaide, Australia. A naturally occurring mutation（...