The horse ancestor that was no bigger than a fox
If you envision ancient horses thundering majestically across prehistoric plains, you need to radically adjust your expectations. Hyracotherium, the earliest ancestor of horses, was an incredibly pathetic, multi-toed little creature roughly the size of a standard fox. It scurried nervously through dense forests, entirely failing to look even slightly heroic.

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