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Over 55 million years ago horses first evolved. They were only the size of an average dog and they had a pentadactyl limb (finger like structures instead of one hoof as we know today.) This enabled them to walk around as the Earths surface was covered in marshland and they needed the splayed out feet in order to do this, otherwise they would sink and would be unable to run from predators.

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