The ancestors of horses found!

Ethiopia's fossil-rich badlands of scientists engaged in the research, an ancestor who lived about 4.4 million years ago found.Consumed the bones and the small bones of a zebra on the type of horse in the neck, was discovered in the valley of Ethiopia's Middle Avashin.

Bone anchorage of the desert today , though, Eurygnathohippus called Woldegabriel of this type of horse when it was inhabited , was covered with forests and meadows .
Discovering scientists engaged Scott Simpson, among the finds , under the red earth has been well maintained and still maintains whiteness pre- announced that the two ends of the leg bones . Simpson and his research team , obtained from the leg bones of the parts of the horse , show that it has longer legs than their predecessors , he says. Again, the structure and length of the leg , the horse that ran fast , so protected from attack by predators in the region shows that the longer alive .
In the examination of the horse's teeth , such as zebras and wildebeests , it was found that grass-fed in the meadow . This horse type , three -toed ungulates around 16 million years ago, known only emerged in North America , is known as belonging to the family Hipparionines . These horses from North America , once thought to connect Alaska and Siberia over a land mass , is considered to have reached Eurasia .
Researchers, this new discovery , the evolution of horses , length of the nose and says that new information about how prolonged .

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