Tag: horses
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PBS Eons: The Mystery of South America’s False Horses
PBS Eons has a new episode on Youtube. This one is about the “false” horses of South America. How did the “false horse,” Thoatherium, and its relatives survive when their hoofed legs seemed to be adapted for an ecosystem that wouldn’t exist for another 12 million years?
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Mammoth and Horse DNA Left in Freezer Rewrite Ice Age Extinctions
Smithsonian Magazine has a story about research that shows that woolly mammoths and other Ice Age animals survived up to about 5,000 years ago instead of the accepted 13,000 years. Frozen permafrost samples collected about 10 years ago were analyzed and they revealed DNA of wooly mammoths, wild horses, and steppe bison. The research was…
