Neat News 2413 (added 2022-08-09)

Horses from Spanish galleon

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There was the question where the horses on the island of Assateague, off Maryland and Virginia, come from. The theory that they descend from horses coming to land after a shipwreck of a Spanish galleon is now supported by a gene analysis comparing their genes to a 16th century tooth.

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