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300,000-year-old genomes: History of the Schöningen horses deciphered
For the first time, a research team from the Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Paleoenvironment at the University of Tübingen and the Schöningen Research Center have reconstructed the genomes of an extinct horse species, Equus mosbachensis, from the archaeological site of Schöningen in Lower Saxony, which is approximately 300,000 years old.
Schöningen, a small town near Helmstedt, is known beyond Lower Saxony for archaeological finds, including hundreds of thousands of years old spears. Now researchers have made a new discovery.
A research team from the Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment at the University of Tübingen and the Schöningen Research Station has, for the first time, reconstructed the genome of the extinct horse species Equus mosbachensis from the approximately 300,000-year-old Schöningen site in Lower Saxony. Due to exceptionally good preservation conditions, the researchers were able to identify the oldest DNA to date from an open-a…
300,000-year-old Genomes: History of the Schöningen Horses Deciphered
1.10.2025 - For the first time, a research team from the Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment at the University of Tübingen and the Schöningen Research Centre have reconstructed the genomes of an extinct horse species Equus mosbachensis from the archaeological site of Schöningen in Lower Saxony, approximately 300,000 years old.
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