Surprising new study redraws family tree of domesticated and 'wild' horses
There are no such things as "wild" horses anymore.
Plants & Animals
Feb 22, 2018
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News tagged with wild horses
Wild horses flourish in Chernobyl 35 years after explosion
Down an overgrown country road, three startled wild horses with rugged coats and rigid manes dart into the flourishing overgrowth of their unlikely nature reserve: the Chernobyl exclusion zone.
Ecology
Apr 23, 2021
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Report: More than 1,000 wild horses sent to slaughter
The American Wild Horse Campaign released a report Friday documenting that 1,020 federally-protected wild horses and burros have been sold at slaughter auctions in the last 22 months.
Ecology
Sep 26, 2022
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Reshaping the horse through millennia
Whole genome sequencing of modern and ancient horses unveils the genes that have been selected by humans in the process of domestication through the latest 5.500 years, but also reveals the cost of this domestication. A new ...
Evolution
Dec 15, 2014
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Wild horses spent the harsh winter at California's Mono Lake. Now they're turning up dead
Several wild horse carcasses have been discovered this spring on the southwestern shores of Mono Lake, after California endured a cold and snowy winter.
Plants & Animals
May 19, 2023
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Once extinct, world's last wild horse returns to Russian steppes
If the world's only surviving wild horses had a say in the matter, they might opt for a cosy stable and fresh daily oats, scientists studying them joke.
Plants & Animals
Mar 7, 2016
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Understanding the role of pareidolia in early human cave art
A psychological phenomenon where people see meaningful forms in random patterns, such as seeing faces in clouds, may have stimulated early humans to make cave art.
Archaeology
Sep 21, 2023
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The case for speaking politely to animals
How we speak matters to animals. Horses, pigs and wild horses can distinguish between negative and positive sounds from their fellow species and near relatives, as well as from human speech, according to new research in behavioral ...
Plants & Animals
May 24, 2022
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Archaeologists find earliest known domestic horses
(PhysOrg.com) -- An international team of archaeologists has uncovered the earliest known evidence of horses being domesticated by humans. The discovery suggests that horses were both ridden and milked. The findings could ...
Archaeology
Mar 5, 2009
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Extinct-in-the-wild species in conservation limbo
For species classified as "extinct in the wild", the zoos and botanical gardens where their fates hang by a thread are as often anterooms to oblivion as gateways to recovery, new research has shown.
Ecology
Feb 26, 2023
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