The elite used the highly-prized, donkey-like creatures for travel and warfare. Glenn Schwartz/John Hopkins University The kungas of Syro-Mesopotamia were ancient equines that roamed the region 4,500 ...

(CN) — Scientists announced Friday they have used genome sequencing to uncover the earliest known evidence of humans breeding hybrid animals. According to research published in the journal Science ...

A team of geneticists, archaeologists, and paleontologists believes they’ve settled the identity of an enigmatic equid from ancient Mesopotamia. That animal is a kunga, which the researchers show was ...

The bones of horse-like creatures unearthed in a 4500-year-old royal tomb in Syria are the earliest known hybrid animals bred by people, with DNA sequencing showing them to be crosses of donkeys and ...