Why do horses have eyes on the side of their head? 'You often have to teach horses something on both sides of their body for them to process the information fully.' In the animal kingdom, horses are prey. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Have you ever noticed that horses have eyes on the sides of the head rather than the front, like we do as humans? The location of horses' eyes offer a biological advantage that helps keep them safe as prey animals.

Maybe Skynet will not be our future. Maybe artificial intelligence will not be the machines that disdainfully wipe us out, but instead, will be the long-awaited "little child" who finally leads our species out of its vicious cycles of violence, red in tooth and claw. I had an interesting thought while - appropriately - sitting on a beach by Malibu watching the red sun sink into the sea... Humans evolved as prey animals. According to Sapiens author, Yuval Harari, for a whoppingly overwhelming majority of our evolution, we were bear and tiger food. And so we developed the quick-twitch fight-or flight reactivity of prey animals, always on guard.