Sentence examples for ancient horses from inspiring English sources

But that was pie-in-the-sky thinking, because no one is trying to clone ancient horses.

She describes archeological evidence from other parts of the world, ways in which horses were used in prehistoric times, and artistic depictions of ancient horses.

Much of our knowledge of ancient horses comes not from fossils but from man-made artifacts such as jewelry, temple art, and grave stelae.

"Louise Firouz was the first to do the research and recognize that these were descendants of ancient horses," Ms. Stull said.

The research, published online on Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, grew out of an effort to discern the coat colors of ancient horses to help figure out when the animals were domesticated, a pivotal moment in the development of human societies.

Genomes from ancient horses show the genetic changes wrought by domestication and their costs.

There are also votive pictures, some portraying the horse and traceable to the ancient horse sacrifice.

In fact, Dr. Hofreiter said, researchers who work with ancient horse genes should not even go horseback riding.

The researchers who sequenced it then analyzed DNA from a less ancient horse, one that lived 43,000 years ago, as well as five contemporary horse breeds and a donkey named Willy that resides in the Copenhagen Zoo.

"The Imaginarium," which he wrote with Charles McKeown, is Mr. Gilliam's first wholly original project since "Time Bandits," and it started with a single image: that ancient, horse-drawn wagon arriving in present-day London.

A race across the Arctic Circle in a pick-up truck was branded "highly irresponsible" by Greenpeace and the BBC was forced to pay £250 to residents of a Somerset village after it emerged that damage to ancient horse chestnut tree was caused during filming of a "strength test" for a 4x4 vehicle.