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Article is 2018. I believe this is a pretty old article and original horses are now know to have come west from the Americas to Asia via the bering strait, but
by beacon294 2y ago
Article is 2018. I believe this is a pretty old article and original horses are now know to have come west from the Americas to Asia via the bering strait, but am not able to look it up at this time.
- chrisco255 2y agoThat's not correct at all.
- mkl 2y agoIt is correct, but the migration happened millions of years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_of_the_horse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_of_the_horse
- chrisco255 2y agoThat is a link to a Wikipedia article. The article references an ancestor of the horse migrating over and back and forth from North America to Asia, but not the horse itself, and certainly not domesticated horses, which originate in Middle East / Asia.
- stubish 2y agoThe article is about domestic horses, not about their extinct ancestors. The article says that previously the Mongolian breed were believed to be the last truly wild, undomesticated horses (predating domestication 5.5k years ago). Now they believe that they in fact are descendants of domestic horses. Making all living horses descendants of domesticated horses. But yes, the wild horses the Botai domesticated evolved in the Americas.
- linearrust 2y agoCamels as well. The ancestors of camels migrated from america to asia via the bering straits thousands of years ago.