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Ancient Mesopotamians Bred Horselike Hybrids
A genomics study reveals the parentage of a long-mysterious creature called a kunga, the earliest-known hybrid animal bred by humans.
Ancient Mesopotamians Bred Horselike Hybrids
Ancient Mesopotamians Bred Horselike Hybrids

A genomics study reveals the parentage of a long-mysterious creature called a kunga, the earliest-known hybrid animal bred by humans.

A genomics study reveals the parentage of a long-mysterious creature called a kunga, the earliest-known hybrid animal bred by humans.

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Goats Prefer Happy Human Faces
Jef Akst | Dec 1, 2018 | 4 min read
Like dogs and horses, goats can discern happy from angry facial expressions. But whether these animals possess empathy remains unclear.
Ancient Teeth Tell the History of Equine Dentistry
Sukanya Charuchandra | Oct 1, 2018 | 3 min read
Researchers studied 3,000-year-old skeletal remains from Mongolia to understand the origins of veterinary dental practices.
Wild Horses Can Handle Hurricanes. What About Climate Change?
Ashley Yeager | Aug 28, 2018 | 4 min read
Strong winds and heavy rain can sometimes wash the animals out to sea, but shortages of fresh drinking water and food are more worrisome as sea levels rise.
From Railroad Tracks to Racetracks, 1870s
Jim Daley | Aug 1, 2018 | 3 min read
How a robber baron and an eccentric inventor solved a millennia-old question about horses.
Image of the Day: Pompeiian Horse
The Scientist and The Scientist Staff | May 24, 2018 | 1 min read
Archaeologists unearthed the remains in a farm north of the doomed Italian city.
Image of the Day: Ice Age HorseĀ 
The Scientist and The Scientist Staff | Nov 29, 2017 | 1 min read
Scientists have identified a new genus of extinct horse that lived in North America during the last ice age. 
Study: Horses Did Not Develop New Traits During Periods of Rapid Speciation
Diana Kwon | Feb 12, 2017 | 2 min read
Speciation and development of new traits may not always go hand-in-hand.
Increasing Seal Pup Numbers Influence Feral-Horse Feeding Habits
Catherine Offord | Aug 1, 2016 | 2 min read
Researchers reveal how seals affect vegetation patterns and influence the movement of feral horse populations on Sable Island in Canada.
Genome Digest
Karen Zusi | Sep 30, 2015 | 4 min read
What researchers are learning as they sequence, map, and decode species’ genomes
Genome Digest
Jenny Rood | Jan 12, 2015 | 5 min read
What researchers are learning as they sequence, map, and decode species’ genomes
Horse Genome Is Oldest Ever Sequenced
Dan Cossins | Jun 26, 2013 | 3 min read
By sequencing the genome of a 700,000-year-old horse, researchers have pushed back the time of DNA survival by almost an order of magnitude.
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