The giant horse (''Equus giganteus'') is an extinct species of horse which lived in North America.
It was classified as a species based on the finding of a single tooth larger than the teeth of even the largest modern
draft horse
A draft horse (US), draught horse (UK) or dray horse (from the Old English ''dragan'' meaning "to draw or haul"; compare Dutch ''dragen'' and German ''tragen'' meaning "to carry" and Danish ''drage'' meaning "to draw" or "to fare"), less oft ...
s. Based on the tooth, the weight was estimated at and the height at tall at the shoulder.
References
Pleistocene horses
Fossil taxa described in 1901
Pleistocene mammals of North America
{{paleo-oddtoedungulate-stub