The Outer Banks are known for their iconic lighthouses, and Ocracoke couldn’t miss out on the fun. Visit the whitewash beacon ...

Are wild horses truly “wild,” as an indigenous species in North America, or are they “feral weeds”—barnyard escapees, far removed genetically from their prehistoric ancestors? The question at hand is, ...

The annual “stallion wars” are underway on North Carolina’s barrier islands ... People are not being targeted, but the wild “banker horses” have little regard for rules of fair play ...

Horses first evolved in North America. Some of their early ancestors lived 30–40 million years ago and were small, three-toed browsers that fed on leaves of woody plants. By the last Ice Age, large ...

Corolla Wild Horse Fund photo An irascible mule that spent much of his life convinced he was a horse has died after two decades of wandering North Carolina’s Outer Banks, according to the ...

A wild horse herd with colonial Spanish-American ... A small, feral herd of horses living on Shackleford Banks, North Carolina. No one is sure exactly how they arrived there – there are unproven ...