A "unique" prehistoric artwork depicting a horse has been restored to its "former glory." The Uffington White Horse was carved into a chalk hill around 3,000 years ago in what is now Oxfordshire, a ...
Przewalski’s horses are the last truly wild horses, once roaming across Eurasia and North America. They went extinct in the wild in the 1950s–60s due to hunting, but a small number had been brought to ...
It turned out Stroebel had stumbled onto a unique breeding project conceived more than 25 years earlier by Harry Hegardt, another horse lover. Hegardt had dedicated years to recreating an extinct, ...
Scientists have identified DNA that is around 200,000 years old at an open-air archaeological site in Germany, a place where experts once believed such genetic material could not survive. The find was ...
Papers from a symposium, Late prehistoric exploitation of the Eurasian steppe, Cambridge University, January 2000. siris_sil_710722 ...
This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American They drew, sculpted and painted rhinos, ...