It's one of the best times of year for horse racing. The 150th running of the Preakness Stakes, the second race in the Triple Crown, will take place on Saturday at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore.

Horses are magnificent creatures. The oldest ancestors of wild horses evolved nearly four million years ago and ran in large herds across grasslands. It was believed that the Spanish were among the ...

The 2025 Preakness Stakes takes place this Saturday, May 17, at 4 PM ET on NBC and Peacock. Saturday’s race not only marks the 150th edition of the event, but it will be the final event at the ...

Wild horses far outnumbered humans on the Outer Banks a century ago. But beyond legends of long-ago Spanish shipwrecks, no one really knows how they got there. A 1926 article in the National ...

For the first time, a research team from the Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Paleoenvironment at the University of Tübingen and the Schöningen Research Center have reconstructed the genomes ...