equidae
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5,000-Year-Old Remains Might Be Oldest-Known Horseback Riders
Researchers interrogating the skeletal remains in kurgans — 5,000-year-old burial mounds — found evidence that some of the Neolithic people were riding horses.
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Oldest Known Human-Bred Hybrid Animal Was a ‘Kunga’
A team of geneticists, archaeologists, and paleontologists believe they’ve settled the identity of an enigmatic equid from ancient Mesopotamia. That animal is a kunga, which the researchers show was a cross between a female donkey and a male Syrian wild arse.