Sentence examples for primitive horses from inspiring English sources
Changes in the understory dominated by glossy buckthorn Frangula alnus via the influence of primitive horses were analyzed in a 28-year-old enclosure in the village of Szklarnia at the Biłgoraj Horse-Breeding Centre near Janów Lubelski (eastern Poland).
The early Britons would have lived alongside sabre-toothed cats and hyenas, primitive horses, red deer and southern mammoths in a climate similar to that of southern Britain today, though winters were typically a few degrees colder.
From 55 to 20 Ma [million years ago], primitive horses had estimated body sizes between ∼10 and 50 kg.
Clearly, he has never actually looked at the fossils, since primitive horses like Protorohippus do not even remotely resemble the smallest modern ponies of the genus Equus.
The neck is medium in length, and most of the animals have only five lumbar vertebrae (an anatomical feature common in primitive horses)—although some have a fifth and sixth vertebrae which are fused.
Concerning its origins, a theory has been advanced by some authors that the Sorraia is a descendant of primitive horses belonging to the naturally occurring wild fauna of Southern Iberia.
From the dun of the primitive horse has sprung a variety of colours and patterns, some highly variable and difficult to distinguish.
As he tells it, he and his colleagues simply announce, as they pick up some mangled fragment of petrified bone, that this one comes from some primitive horse, and that from some long-extinct proto-bird.
The primitive horse probably stood 12 hands (about 120 cm, or 48 inches) tall at the withers, the high point on the back at the base of the neck, and was dun coloured (typically brownish to dark gray).
The team noticed that an unusual number of specimens of the primitive horse Propalaeotherium (five out of 50) were pregnant mares.
As can be seen from the crown views of the upper left cheek teeth, the details of the crests and cusps are extremely similar between Radinskya, the early brontothere Palaeosyops, the primitive horse Protorohippus (long called "Hyracotherium"), the primitive moropomorph Homogalax, the chalicothere Litolophus, the tapiroid Heptodon, and the primitive rhinoceros Hyracodon.
