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Nakul stud farm in Haryana gets it's name from one of the characters of Mahabharat named Nakul (one of the five Pandava brothers). He was considered as one of the best Horse-rider in mythology. These days, however, researchers have a far more complex picture of horse evolution — and they have given the dawn horse a much less colorful name. While they agree that today's horse probably arose from that smaller ancestor, the path was by no means direct. Instead, paleontologists have uncovered fossils that show that horse ancestors varied in size: some large early horses gave way later to smaller ones. They also discovered that some lines of horse-like animals alternated between many and few toes over time. In addition, some proto-horses once thought to be direct forefathers of the modern anima