Current Events > Giant Donkeys BBC Jan.2023

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"At the site of a Roman villa in the village of Boinville-en-Wovre, a team unearthed the remains of several donkeys that would have dwarfed most of the species we are familiar with today."

All the while that troops were struggling up the mountain in Morocco, the little donkeys were rescuing earthquake victims.

The donkey made long distance trade possible in early human history.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230116-how-donkeys-changed-the-course-of-human-history

This is more or less the same topic but horses

https://www.science.org/content/article/whence-domestic-horse

The origin of horses and of horse breeds.

Data were collected for only working animals bred within a local area, not those bred for show or appearance, to minimize any human-guided selection that would make some genes more common. Then, the researchers used computer programs designed to model the spread of a population to simulate how different locations of horse domestication and spread throughout the steppe would influence modern genetic diversity.

That was 2012. This article says that the horses of above article went extinct.

https://phys.org/news/2021-10-domestic-horses.html