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ARRRRR ARRRRR ARRRRR. Bucephalus (Alexander the Great's Horse) The taming of Bucephalus[edit] Alexander taming Bucephalus A statue by John Steell showing Alexander taming Bucephalus.

Bucephalus (Alexander the Great's Horse)

Spanish Jimeta Horsemanship. 700,000-Year-Old Horse Yields Oldest DNA Ever Decoded. The frozen remains of a horse more than half a million years old have reluctantly given up their genetic secrets, providing scientists with the oldest DNA ever sequenced.

700,000-Year-Old Horse Yields Oldest DNA Ever Decoded

The horse was discovered in 2003 in the ancient permafrost of Canada’s west-central Yukon Territory, not far from the Alaskan border. And although the animal was dated to between 560,000 and 780,000 years old, an international team of researchers was able to use a new combination of techniques to decipher its genetic code.

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