What most people thought were the last remaining wild horses on Earth -- known as Przewalski's horses -- were actually domesticated horses that escaped their owners, said the report in the journal Science. "This means there are no living wild horses on Earth -- that's the sad part," said Olsen. That means what people thought were wild horses were actually feral, meaning they had escaped from domestication but were not originally wild. We should continue to protect Przewalski's horses as a population of wild horses." Since the Botai horses did not give rise to today's domesticated horses, "the origin of modern domestic horses must be sought elsewhere."

Source: The Nation Bangkok February 22, 2018 19:18 UTC