Word: eohippus
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Dates: during 1932-1932
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...horse originated in North America. It had four toes on its fore feet, three toes on its hind feet. Moderns speak of it as Eohippus. It stood about 16 in. high, lived some 25 million years ago. In 24,900,000 years Eohippus grew up to the size of the modern horse, went wandering across America into Asia, across Asia, down into Africa. There the Libyans tamed him. From this horse is descended the race of pure-blooded Arab horses, famed for fleetness, which Arabian breeders still guard jealously. Some of his cousins went to France, were also tamed. These...