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Mongolia: Endangered horses back from the brink

As the sun began to sink over the grasslands of central Mongolia, a herd of stocky, dun-colored horses emerged from a rocky outcrop on a slope where they had been sheltering from the blazing heat of a ...

The Horses of Chernobyl Are Earth’s Last Wild Breed—and Thriving in a Nuclear Wasteland

Ever since the nuclear disaster of 1986, the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone has taken on a second life as an animal haven of sorts. Between 1998 and 2004, scientists began to introduce the endangered ...
Charlotte Observer

Wild horse dies ‘instantaneously’ while mating on Outer Banks beach, officials say

A wild horse mating ritual turned fatal on North Carolina’s Outer Banks when a mare “instantaneously” died while being chased by a stallion, according to the Corolla Wild Horse Fund. It happened ...
The New York Times

Wild Horse Is Euthanized After Being Hit by a Vehicle in the Outer Banks

The horse, a 10-year-old stallion named Bullwinkle, was one of only 200 Banker horses, a breed on the Outer Banks in North Carolina that descended from horses brought over by Spanish explorers. By ...
Tri-City Herald

Wild horse dies ‘instantaneously’ while mating on Outer Banks beach, officials say

The horse that died was a 12-year-old mare known as Caroline, the fund said in a Facebook post. Her neck was broken. Corolla Wild Horse Fund photo A wild horse mating ritual turned fatal on North ...