After taking a second look at what was thought to be a cow tooth, one scientist has found evidence to help solve the mysterious origin story for these wild ponies.
But the ponies are not native to those beaches. And rather than beinghorses, they're considered feral One of the larger herds lives in the Chincoteague Wild Refuge on Virginia's part of the island.
A scientist in Florida may have uncovered a connection to the horses and their DNA, and it all happened by accident. "When looking at the most closely related animals, we found out that the closest relative to them were Chincoteague ponies," Delsol said."Cows, like horses and like many other domestic mammals, didn't exist in the Americas prior to the arrival of the Europeans."
"The thing that [we know] for a fact is that these horses, the Chincoteague ponies, are very closely related to colonial horses from the Caribbean Spanish colonies," he said.
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