fossil horse limb (IMAGE)

University of California - Santa Cruz

fossil horse limb

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Paleontologist Aisling Farrell holds a mummified frozen horse limb recovered from a placer gold mine in the Klondike goldfields in Yukon Territory, Canada. Ancient DNA recovered from horse fossils reveals gene flow between horse populations in North America and Eurasia.

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Image credit: Government of Yukon

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