(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...