Indeed, in a 2009 analysis of DNA from the bones of nearly 90
ancient horses dated from about 12,000 to 1000 years ago, researchers found genetic evidence for bay and black coat colors but no sign of the spotted variety, suggesting that the spotted horse could have been the figment of some artist's imagination.
Not exact matches
In fact some of the evidence you didn't mention which was popular fodder in the past has already been proven incorrect (
horses in the americas before the spanish, and the BofM reference to elephants) Both considered ridiculous errors by Joseph Smith until elephants appeared on
ancient Mayan / Incan temples and
horses from the Brea tar pits were
dated before the spanish.
We first calibrated the whole - exome phylogeny using the time to the most recent common ancestor (TMRCA) of Equus (donkey vs.
horses) at 4.0 — 4.5 Mya (9) and tip
dates for
ancient samples, assuming that the combined evolution of protein - coding genes follows a molecular clock (Fig. 2A).
horses, horned aurochs (
ancient cattle)--
dating back years were discovered at.