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Wild Horses as Native North American Wildlife
By Jay
F. Kirkpatrick, Ph.D. and Patricia M. Fazio, Ph.D.
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Traditionally, horses were thought of as an exotic species that arrived on this continent for the first time with the Spanish in the 1500s. However, advances in molecular biology prove that the modern horse, Equus Caballus, actually evolved on this continent and migrated across the Bering Land Bridge. The horse disappeared on this continent between 11,000 and 13,000 years ago. When the Spanish brought horses back to North America, the horses were simply returning home. |
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