Welcome to the Yukon Wild Horses website! The Yukon Wild Horses are the most northerly wild horses in the world, and must fend off predators like bears and wolves. They survive through the snow and cold of long, brutal winters of temperatures between -20 °C to -50 °C (that’s -4 °F to -58 °F to Imperial users) and as a result they are extremely sturdy and hardy animals who have adapted to the climate and geography of the area. The Yukon has been a backdrop for horses for millions of years, starting with the original horse ancestor which lived in the Yukon 30 to 55 million years ago. This horse was small and had four toes. The modern horse evolved in North America about 5 million years ago and was present during the Ice Age. In fact, wild horses lived in the Yukon at the same time as the Wooly Mammoth!