Steppe horse

Steppe horse

Steppe horse refers to various domesticated horse and wild horse species.

A species of horse that inhabited the North American steppes in the Pleistocene. It was one the last of North America's equids before becoming extinct at the end of the last ice age.fact|date=July 2008


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