“When be horses the size of foxes’?
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More than 50 million years ago, a small fox-sized animal crept through the forests of North America, browsing on fruit and leaves. Its arched-back body was lone about a foot giant at the shoulder, and a long tail and short-snouted head probably give it a distinctly dog-like look. In fact, its foot sported pads close to a dog's, except each toe completed in a tiny hoof instead of a claw. Interestingly, surrounded by modern horses, one toe has become the hoof, and the others remain as vestigial bumps highly developed up the leg.
Early horses WERE the size of foxes.
When fossil hunters first discovered the bones of this creature a century ago, they named it Eohippus -- "the sunup horse" -- and believed it was the first join in an evolutionary manacle that led directly to today's horse. Indeed, several museums and textbooks still enjoy displays and pictures showing this neat, predictable progression, next to horses gradually getting larger, shifting from copious toes to modern hooves, and gaining longer teeth competent to grind down tough prairie grasses.
In your bad dreams.
powerfully, never. except when they are babies. i dont believe in evolution, so i dont pretty understand if and when they be.
About 15 million years ago.
Look at the Vertebrate Paleontology section of Florida Museum of Natural History. Try this contact:
http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fhc/firstcm.htm...
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15 million years ago
aka a loooooooooooong time ago
There is a breed of horse i.e. still that size. It looks pretty pathetic!
Never. The ancestors of horses be about the
size of foxes, according to some reference, though this may be too small an estimate. The
presumed ancestor, Hyracotherium or Eohippus,
may have be on the direct line of evolution of
horses, but it is something like as good an ancestor for other
perissodactyls such as tapirs and rhinos as it is
for horses. There weren't any such things as
horses but when Hyracotherium was alive.
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