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Horses lived in the Americas for millions of years – new research helps paleontologists understand the fossils we’ve found and those that are missing from the record
The family Equidae, which includes domesticated varieties of horses and donkeys along with zebras and their kin, is actually native to the Americas. The fossil record reveals horse origins here ...
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Underwater fossil bed discovered by collectors preserves rare slice of Florida’s past
Hundreds of horse fossils have been recovered from the ... Pleistocene ice ages called the middle Irvingtonian. “The fossil record everywhere, not just in Florida, is lacking the interval ...
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George Gaylord Simpson: Natural Selection and the Fossil Record
For example, where others saw the modern horse as having arisen in a single ... Importantly, he showed that gaps in the fossil record reflected periods of substantial change through rapid "quantum ...