By the last Ice Age, large single-toed animals, who fed on grasses (similar to the horses we know today), had become widespread. These wild horses went extinct about 10,000 years ago, possibly due to ...

There, the foal was swallowed up in a $76 million bureaucracy that captures, feeds and stockpiles more horses than any other in the nation. Wild horses in captivity now outnumber those in the wild.