Eohippus
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Sep 12, 2026
X7HOST
And driving through the ages, there's finally we got a Smilodon.
X7HOST
And there is, of course, the Eohippus from Gwangi.
X7HOST
El Diablo, what a name for a tiny, cute old animal.
X7HOST
There's a mammoth.
X7HOST
KXNO, part of the Zanorama Broadcasting Network.
X7HOST
We now return you to our regularly scheduled program.
X7HOST
Here we have a fossil of a Protorohippus, which came after the Eohippus and the Mesohippus and some other hippocises.
X7HOST
And now we've got some various fossils from even further back in time.
AlyssaHOST
Yeah, so this lady also did Dragon Riders of Pern, which does kind of the same thing you're describing, but with dragons.
AlyssaHOST
This is a story about this lady and her little Eohippus friend and this lumbering monstrosity.
AlyssaHOST
And I got a little of the way into it.
AlyssaHOST
It's well written.
Scott BecksteadGUEST
The natural history of the horse in North America, this is their home turf.
Scott BecksteadGUEST
The very first proto-horse evolved 50 million years or more ago, little Eohippus, which was just a little animal about the size of a cat.
Scott BecksteadGUEST
It was.
Scott BecksteadGUEST
It was tiny.
Phil ChenevertNARRATOR
Brontosaurs and pterodactyls lived and fed and died.
Phil ChenevertNARRATOR
There were mammals, Eohippus the fleet and three-toed, and a tiny marsupial in which the flame of intelligence glowed feebly.
Phil ChenevertNARRATOR
But the titan reptiles ruled.
Phil ChenevertNARRATOR
Mammals could not survive in this savage, thundering world.
Gregg MargariteNARRATOR
There were
Gregg MargariteNARRATOR
mammals, Eohippus the fleet and three-toed, and a tiny marsupial in which the flame of
Gregg MargariteNARRATOR
intelligence glowed feebly.
Gregg MargariteNARRATOR
But the titan reptiles ruled.
speaker_3NARRATOR
But fossil horses from fifty million years ago were very different.
speaker_3NARRATOR
Eohippus, also called Hyracotherium, was about the size of a small dog, standing only about fourteen inches tall at the shoulder.
speaker_3NARRATOR
It had multiple toes on each foot, not the single hoof of modern horses.
speaker_3NARRATOR
These early horses lived in forests, browsing on soft leaves.