Cats are famous for their ability to nap anywhere and everywhere, but horses have a cool naptime trick too. They can get some shut-eye while standing up! (Why couldn’t humans have inherited this ...

Is worrying about your horse's cribbing habit keeping you up at night? It turns out that cribbing might keep your horse up at night, too. New research has revealed that the stereotypy could be related ...

In June 2022, the internet was introduced to a new "anti-work hero," Sugar the horse, when a photograph went viral attached to a caption claiming that this animal would lie down and pretend to sleep ...

This horse sometimes says “neigh” to working. A mare named Sugar has gone viral for pretending to be asleep when she doesn’t feel like working. In the original tweet by user Jim Rose, a photo shows ...

It might be nice to doze off while waiting in the checkout line at the grocery store, but unlike horses, humans cannot sleep standing up. Having evolved to flee in an instant, horses are equipped with ...

Horses are literally restless animals. Before domestication, they wandered in search of grass and water, spending most of their time on the move, grazing. Defense against predators was alertness and ...

When we picture a rescued horse thriving, we might envision it galloping freely through open pastures. But for one white horse, true happiness looks a little different—flat on its side, sound asleep, ...

If you've ever passed by a field of horses at night, you've probably noticed that they rarely lie down to sleep. So why do these mammals sleep standing up? The answer is one of survival: Horses ...

A unique strategy developed by researchers at Cardiff University is opening up new possibilities for improving medical imaging. Medical imaging often requires getting unnatural materials such as metal ...