This model was reviewed as part of a pair alongside her stallion counterpart, you can find more details about the breed and it’s history alongside a review of the Andalusian Stallion in an earlier blog post. I’d also like to thank Happy Hen Toys for sending me this marvelous sample product!

Up next is the gorgeous mare released in 2025 as #14894. She was also sculpted by the very talented […]

Welcome back to another horse review! This time I selected the 2025 Andalusian horse pair from Schleich and we are going to start with the stallion here. HUGE thank you as always to Happy Hen Toys for supplying this sample model to me. This model is #14895 and was released under their Horse Club “playworld” category. I also have a review of this model’s counterpart, the Andalusian mare. The […]

🐴 #FossilFriday — Horse molar (SMM P2020.7.34)❤️‍🔥. Specimen 7 of 12 for radiocarbon dating — another incredible Ice Age find from my good friend Bill in 2018 — New Ulm, Minnesota.

Every one of these teeth and bones helps us answer a bigger question: Were Ice Age horses still roaming Minnesota later than we thought?

I’ve added new notes on Substack:

https://substack.com/@marcusbrandel/note/c-210629991

👇 What do you think this molar’s age will come back as — Ice Age or more recent?
#Pleistocene #Equus

#LostBones #FossilFriday #RadioCarbonDating 🐂🦥🐴🐘🐪In June 1921, workers removing the overburden at the Sagamore Mine near Riverton, Minnesota uncovered a peat layer ~eight feet below the surface that held a rich Pleistocene bone bed. Among the material recovered from this layer were a horse molar (specimen #6) and an horse incisor, found alongside other late‑Quaternary remains within the same sedimentary zone.

https://www.crowwinghistory.org

#pleistocene #palaeontology #CitizenScience #Equus

Happy #LostBones #FossilFriday! 🐴🦣🐂🦥🍃🐪🐟 Was on the road this week with @dr_crocogator to retrieve specimen #4! This beauty of a horse molar (right p2) is from Wright County, Minnesota.

It was found on the shore of Olson’s Point on Buffalo Lake in 1976 and was currently housed at the Wright County Historical Society in Buffalo.

www.wrighthistory.org
📖Notes: https://substack.com/profile/74732696-marcus-brandel/note/c-210629991

#pleistocene #equus #palaeontology #citizenscience #horse #iceage #mnmuseums

🐴 #LostBones 🐘🦥🐪 For #FossilFriday, a new series: 12 horse teeth from across Minnesota, each one headed for radiocarbon dating to finally pin down when these animals moved across the state’s post glacial landscape.

Specimen #1 comes from a private collection near Little Sauk, Minnesota — a single horse tooth pulled from a skull found in the black marl of the Sauk River.

How do they fit into the lives or paleo-Minnesotans?

#Pleistocene #Equus #Paleontology #CitizenScience #RadiocarbonDating

A symbol of the old west and the untamable American spirit, the mustang is a feral breed of horse that hasn’t always been a beloved icon of the United States. Upon the settling of the American west these free-roaming horses were heavily persecuted for competing with livestock for food. Although protected in 1971 by the Wild Free-Roaming Horse and Burro Act (for being “living symbols of the […]

🐴 For #FossilFriday the Eocene “dawn horse” Protorohippus venticolus (cast), housed at the Utah Field House of Natural History in Vernal, UT.

The original specimen—now in a private collection—is about 33cm (13 in) tall at the shoulder. It is one of two known specimens from the Fossil Butte Member at Fossil Butte National Monument, Wyoming.

I’ll be posting more about North American equids in the Midwest the next few months.

#Eocene #equus #palaeontology #citizenscience

https://www.nps.gov/fobu/learn/nature/fossil-mammals.htm

Happy #FossilFriday! 🐴🐘🐪💀 This gorgeous horse mandible comes from Brown County, Minnesota. It was collected by a friend of mine under permit in a state park earlier this year. The bone is deceptively heavy, suggesting it has been partially mineralized. Today, it will be donated to the Science Museum of Minnesota for study.

To read more about finds like this, check out my Substack: https://marcusbrandel.substack.com/

#browncountyhistory #holocene #pleistocene #equus #palaeontology #fossils #citizenscience

Mule (Farm World by Schleich)

Here we have an exciting review sample topic to dive into- the mule. This is an incredible domestic animal that not many folks talk about but one that deserves a lot more fanfare than it gets! As a very unique hybrid animal, mules have always fascinated me. This model is the Schleich Mule #14889 and was also released earlier this year in the spring of 2025. Thank you so much to Happy Hen Toys […]

Read more... https://animaltoyforum.com/blog/schleich-mule-farm-world-by-schleich/

#equus #equusAfricanusXEquusFerus #mule