Oldest DNA from domesticated American horse lends credence to shipwreck folklore

An abandoned Caribbean colony unearthed centuries after it had been forgotten and a case of mistaken identity in the archaeological record have conspired to rewrite the history of a barrier island off the Virginia and Maryland coasts. These seemingly unrelated threads were woven together when Nicolas Delsol, a postdoctoral researcher at the Florida Museum of…

Horse drowns during training exercise at Univ of Florida

Cross-posted from Gainesville Sun Written by NATHAN CRABBE A horse died recently during a training exercise for a University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine team created to save large animals in emergency situations. The horse drowned April 29 at Lake Wauburg during a water-rescue training exercise conducted by the UF Large Animal Technical Rescue…