Once Extinct in the Wild, World's Last Wild Horses Return Home

Przewalski's horses in captivity in England. (Photo: Paul Dunleavy/CC BY 2.0) Six of the world’s only remaining wild horses have been reintroduced to their natural habitat, after decades of absence from the vast Russian steppes. The animals, known as Przewalski’s horses, will be entering a harsh winter landscape that was for centuries their own, a sharp departure from the warm confines many of them enjoyed at a shelter in France.