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Exceptionally well-preserved fossils in an area of eastern Germany provide important insights into life in the area 47 million years ago, including the abundant horses.
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“Archaeology is showing us more about how our ancestors survived in this desperately cold and hostile environment at the climax of the last ice age.”
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Chinese nobility felt donkey polo was safer than playing the sport on larger horses.
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New Zealand’s first Olympic showjumping team inducted into Equestrian Sports NZ Hall of Fame, along with double Olympic champion Charisma.
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Researchers sampled portions of teeth and rib bones from 137 previously excavated individuals from the Mongol Empire.
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Evidence suggests people may have begun to consume horse milk at the same time as they started to practice horse bridling and riding.
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From the trade routes of the Silk Road or the great Mongol Empire to the equestrian nations of the American Great Plains, horses were the engines of the ancient world.
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Horses have been linked to major changes in human mobility and social organization, particularly in Inner Asia.
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Small sandstone cave in the South Sinai had been used as an animal shelter in more recent times.
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Study dismisses the notion that humans are in some way separate from “natural” environments.
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Most ancient horse species were identified based on size differences. The DNA tells a different story.
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New technique revealed by scientists opens the door for studying the evolutionary history of fossil species dating back millions of years.
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The findings add weight to the hypothesis that initial human migration to the Americas followed a Pacific coastal route rather than through the opening of an inland ice-free corridor,
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First arrivals, around 45,000 years, most likely first encountered their mysterious cousins, the Denisovans, there.
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Compelling evidence unearthed that ties the expression “oops” to the Great Epizootic of 1872, the most widespread and destructive horse flu epidemic in North American history.
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The find in Sweden, including the remains of a Viking nobleman, is described as sensational.
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The layout of the major blood vessels in the anatomical drawing rule out the possibility that it depicts a horse, according to researchers.
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“These relatively undisturbed populations represent windows into the past,” according to the researchers.
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The Equus family tree in South America may have fallen victim to a historical tendency of scientists to split species, researchers say.
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Donkeys in the ancient Near East were in bits long before the arrival of horses in the region, evidence suggests.
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