Time for some science! Jess and Lucy talk horse evolution (not the pokemon kind) and all kinds of cool new horsey discoveries.
Find links to the articles mentioned here:
- Mechanics of evolutionary digit reduction (https://www.jstor.org/stable/44685070)
- 5,000 year old horse DNA discovered (https://phys.org/news/2021-12-ancient-dna-soil-samples-reveals.html)
- Indigenous people have always said they've had horses for ages (https://ictnews.org/news/yes-world-there-were-horses-in-native-culture-before-the-settlers-came)
- Chincoteague ponies are related to Hispaniola ponies (https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0270600)
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