wild horses

Horse domestication had a huge impact on human society – new science rewrites where and when it first happened

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In human history, no animal has had a greater impact on human societies than the horse. But when and how humans domesticated horses is an enduring scientific mystery. Half a million years ago or more, early human ancestors hunted horses with wooden spears, the very first weapons, and used their bones as early tools. During … Read more

Greece’s less crowded (and cheaper) version of the Camargue

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As we turned off to Chalastra, the gateway to Axios Delta National Park, the silence was so sudden it was as if someone had flipped a switch. Far from the snarl of honking, honking traffic on the Thessaloniki highway, I was on a narrow, tree-lined road and the only sounds were the buzzing of crickets … Read more