Before horses, ass hybrids were bred for warfare

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Jan 14, 2022, 2:00 pm476 ptsHot
The 4,500-year-old iconography and texts from Mesopotamia show that the elite used equids for travel and warfare; however, the nature of these animals remained mysterious. In Science Advances (January 14, 2022), a team from the Institut Jacques Monod (CNRS/Université de Paris) used ancient DNA to show that…

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