- Part donkey, part wild ass, the kunga is the oldest known hybrid bred by humans. Syria’s 4,500-year-old kungas were donkey-wild ass hybrids, genetic analysis reveals, so the earliest known example of humans crossing animal species. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/kunga-donkey-wild-ass-hybrid-biology 4 comments anthropology
- Part donkey, part wild ass, the kunga is the oldest known hybrid bred by humans. Syria’s 4,500-year-old kungas were donkey-wild ass hybrids, genetic analysis reveals, so the earliest known example of humans crossing animal species. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/kunga-donkey-wild-ass-hybrid-biology 65 comments science
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- Humans may have started tending animals almost 13,000 years ago https://www.sciencenews.org/article/humans-animal-husbandry-dung-fuel-fire-syria-stone-age 53 comments
- Mysterious kunga is the oldest known human-bred hybrid animal https://www.sciencenewsforstudents.org/article/kunga-donkey-wild-ass-hybrid-biology?amp=1 1 comment
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