Author: Erika Engelhaupt / Source: Science News
When it comes to wild claims, hold your horses.
Free-roaming Przewalski’s horses of Central Asia are often called the last of the wild horses, the only living equines never domesticated.
But a new genetic analysis of ancient horse bones suggests that these horses have a tamed ancestor after all, making them feral rather than wild.The findings also debunk the idea that these domesticated ancestors — known as Botai horses —gave rise to all other modern horses. That leaves the progenitors of today’s…
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