Did titanic horses once roam the northern hemisphere?

[@johnhiggs325]

A 3,000 lbs wild horse would be quite formidable. I’ve handled a few different draft horse breeds. They are usually very gentle with people, but can easily hurt or maim you completely by accident. The younger geldings would spar behind our barn sometimes and would shake the ground hundreds of feet away. We could feel it inside the house!

[@dawsonj5823]

I had Clydesdale horses years ago and their power was incredible. Now imagine a wild horse this size with the aggressive temperament similar to a zebra from having to contend with the various ice age carnivores. It must have been extremely dangerous.

[@unterdessen8822]

There were 4 natural variants of wild horse in Eurasia: - The Przewalski in northeast Asia, that you already mentioned - The Tarpan in northwest Asia and Europe - The Northern Forest Horse in northern Europe - The Polar horse in northern Asia (further north than both the Przewalski and the Tarpan) Except for the Polar horse they are all recognised as separate ancestors of modern horses and have their own scientific names. Tarpans were the first to be domesticated about 6.000 years ago in the region between rivers Dniepr (now Ukraine) and Ural (now Russia). They existed in 2 variants: Forest Tarpans (Europe) and Steppe Tarpans (West Asia and Central Asia) and are the ancestors of the early domesticated types 1 (resembles an Exmoor pony), 3 (Akhal-Teke, still present) and 4 (Caspian horse, still present). Domesticated type 2 is a hybrid between Tarpan and Przwalski (Mongol pony, still present). The Brothers Heck, who were in charge of the Hellabrunn Zoo in Munich, recreated the Tarpan and the aurochs from primitive horse and cattle breeds in the 1930s, so there is sort of an artificial Tarpan (aka "Heck horse"), that is often kept together with artificial aurochs (aka "Heck cattle") in wildlife parks. But there are also still horses, that resemble the original Tarpans very closely. The Polish Konik horse is most likely a surviving population of Forest Tarpan, and the Russia Vyatka horse is an only slightly modified Steppe Tarpan. Domesticated type 1 also still roams Europe in many local variants, whether it's the Exmoor pony, Fjord horse, Sorraia, Skyros pony or Estonian hobune. These are primitive pony and small horse breeds, that were directly formed from Forest Tarpan stock. The most well-known pony breed, though, the Shetland pony, is not a Tarpan descendant, but a miniature Northern Forest horse. This original horse variant is the ancestor of heavy draft horses (and the smallest, yet strongest pony). The Polar horse is also still around: It's now known as the Yakutian horse now and survives some of the coldest temperatures on the planet in northeast Russia. There's speculation, that it may have influenced Asian breeds, but apparently it hasn't been thoroughly researched yet. So let me correct you from the sidelines: The Przewalski horse wasn't and isn't the only natural wild horse population. At the very least you have to count the Yakutian horse and the Konik as surviving Polar horse and Forest Tarpan. And as the Shetland pony is essentially just a Northern Forest horse, that suffers from insular dwarfism, add that one, too.

[@4Beats4Me]

Gorgeous tributes to the loves of my life. Thank you for a truly unique and wonderful tribute.

[@Lizardboy-111]

Horses are just fascinating animals

[@Sedimented.Studios]

i'd agree, they're pretty unique among megafauna, and there relationship with us makes them even more so

[@mhdfrb9971]

Equus Giganteus (the "Giant Horse") lived through the Ice Age's in America and was predated on by large extinct carnivores such as the American Lion and the Giant Short-Faced Bear, these giant horses went extinct 12,000 years ago around the same time as many other N.American megafauna went extinct. After Equus Giganteus extinction, horses would not return to the continent until Westerners re-introduced them nearly 12,000 years later. Equus Giganteus weighed around 2600-3300 lbs. For comparison, the typical weight of a modern day racehorse is around 1100 lbs. The largest ever horse recorded in the Guinness Book of Records was a shire horse which went by the name Samson (later renamed "Mammoth") and lived during the mid-19th century, it weighed in at 3,359 lbs (so comparable to Equus Giganteus), you can see a picture of it next to people. Their size may have made them too dangerous for people to try taming, especially if their temperments were anything like that of wild zebra (very bitey animals) or aurochs (said to be naturally aggressive towards humans). A lot of people aren't aware of it, but also stallions actually have a pair of canine teeth concealed inside their mouths which they use to inflict devastating flesh ripping bites on their rivals, you can see the horses canines and "wolf teeth" on it's skull anatomy. A potential bite from one of these giant horses would simply not have been worth it, let alone a fall from one (broken bones) or kick (certain death).

[@Baka_Komuso]

5:53 Thank you for “robusticity” rather than the regressive “ness” . An additional reason I have subscribed! Keep it up!

[@marcosalerno4254]

So, even if Equues giganteus is a dubious species, is still the possibility that these fossil fragments belongs to a giant horse species?

[@Sedimented.Studios]

Yes, it’s highly likely they belong to a giant horse species, it’s just they they don’t provide enough diagnostic information, kinda like if you found a human femur from 200,000 years ago, you would pretty easily be able to tell it was from a human, and about how big the person it came from was, but figuring out if it was a sapien, Neanderthal, denisovan, or other as yet undiscovered species would be nearly impossible, in the case of these horse fossils though, the huge size disparities between these fossil and the known species kinda means there has to be unknown species they come from, excluding the very small possibility they are from odd individuals

[@gtavpro3385]

​@Sedimented.Studios thank you for this comment it just summed up the whole video 👍 I'll finish it tho just for you

[@erikm8372]

But… how do you know that comment just summed up the video if you didn’t even finish the video yet? Lol 🤔

[@sunjarty8521]

​@@Sedimented.Studios Is it possible that ancient Horse species would have been naturally prone to Gigantism, like how some lizard species are naturally have a high chance of being born with two heads?

[@nosillalaluna7078]

I read about , Forest horse's , years ago and it said that they where giant ,larger then any horse , now living . Always wished I could have ridden one or at least been able to see one. I wonder how my fantasy of them would compare to their reality , their true form ...

[@Corndogg316]

Sounds like a real champ! Thanks for the killer video 🙏

[@eatsblades]

OK that makes sense....everything was huge and so were horses.

[@JustAnotherRandomGuy-_-]

Chalicotherium is the most weirdest horse for me.

[@generaldissatisfaction5397]

My first viewing of your channel. Quite a good video, I might need to subscribe.

[@melhawk6284]

Is it bad that i hope they find one frozen somewhere and CLONE IIIITTT. They are trying for Mammoth, why not Eqqus Giganteus?!

[@garrettriddle3706]

This was a cool and interesting video. You know what I would find interesting, the evolution of the Wildebeest.

[@raphmaster23]

Apparently leopard spots were another color in predomestcated horses

[@AndrewDavis-sj6mb]

Horses are some of which called "Adroit'' creatures❤

[@glory2cybertron]

Apparently this animal had the proportions of a Grevy's zebra without the big ears.

[@johnking6252]

What an amazing possibility, imagine ? Thx. 👍

[@sgtstr3am785]

Im in the Horse God camp. I want to believe a genetic freak was preserved for us to find

[@macrosense]

I know there were giant camels

[@maozilla9149]

nice

[@Sedimented.Studios]

Thanks

[@maozilla9149]

@@Sedimented.Studios your welcome

[@prowlus]

That explains Raol’s horse from hokoto no ken

[@lordsams]

Giant horses are still here today wth

[@michaelalvermere6532]

What about Shadowfax - Lord of Horses?

[@jandrews6254]

Be helpful if the size of the various horses were given in hands, like we still do today

[@iop3907]

Samson was big like them

[@kaibalfour2318]

They were hunted by Deerbras

[@ericwethington]

Saying dogs had more of an effect on humans than horses is quite frankly BS

[@yalejohnson4687]

It’s “horses.” Apostrophes don’t pluralize things.

[@jamesblackshaw132]

Titanic??

[@JamesWillmus]

Good god, how would someone even ride that thing? You’d feel like a little kid sitting on the back of a draft horse. Not so much piloting the horse as just being along for the ride.

[@eewilson9835]

they were called Titanoarbora, horses as big as a tree, and they were used to farm massive sequoia, this was right here, I'm in North Idaho, a very very long time ago, and a not too far long ago, both!

[@rosazone85]

Correction, the Przewalski's horse are not true wild horses. They traced their DNA back to the Bow-tie people. The last true wild horse was the Tarpan Horse that went extinct a long time ago

[@HexaDecimus]

Wasn't that debunked recently? Latest info is they are wild again.

[@glory2cybertron]

@@HexaDecimusMore like it was a failed domestication experiment because the Botai didn't figure out soon enough that to avoid erosion and starvation killing the herds they must be either moved around like Mongols do today, or have feed grown and brought for them. The Botai attempted to farm horses for meat and milk, not for labor.

[@cro-magnoncarol4017]

Brandon Scott Pilcher artwork... Ew...

[@mikerelva6915]

Horses have had a much, much, much bigger impact than dogs. It's not even questionable. More people may have dogs, and maybe we.have emotional attachments to them, but how did they change the course of humanity? Helping with hunting a little? Horses radically shifted the course of humanity - just look at what happened to the Native Americans after they got the horse. Horses are the reasons we were able to populate America, they plowed our fields, they led us into war, they hauled out firewood to keep warm - humans are still living in the stone age without the horse.

[@robertsonmcnaughton4850]

Imagine the difference both American horses and dogs would've made, natives hunted American horses to extinction( why they looked at European horses in awe, it would be like seeing a live dragon) and last documented American dog was a food source to its tribe in Alaska, parvo killed the rest, different cultures looked at animals differently your statement is bold, and horses only expedited north American colonies.

[@Cody38Super]

What is a Duraft/Diraft Horse? Is it like a Giraffe Horse? Hahahaaaaaaaa.

[@martialme84]

04:09 this is where you dropped the ball. Up to this point you gave measurements in normal units as well as those weird half british/half whatever units. 3000 whatevers mean absolutely nothing to 195 out of 197 countries.

[@DingoDoggie]

An interested person would want to know both systems. If one doesn't want to be bothered with learning them, then stay in your cave.

[@martialme84]

@@DingoDoggie Good one. You must be either british or us-american. You don't seem to realize how isolated the three and a half users of that obsolete "system" are. How many obsolete systems and how many languages that you never use do you speak just because you are an "interested person" and don't want to "stay in your cave"?