I was under the impression there were no horses in the Americas prior to being imported from Europe.
Same here. Is this your typical bad reporting, or did horses inhabit North America at some time in the past?
I remember something about they supposedly all migrated back over the Bering and down to China, or maybe they were overhunted to extinction. I was really surprised at the cheetah find. How’d they get to Wyoming?!
They were here and went extinct.
Indians liked to barbecue horses, cheetahs and bison.
When we were doing the environmental impact study for the Gold Quarry mine in Nevada, a lot of horse and camel fossils were found. Not quite like the modern animals but clearly close ancestors. The idea at that time was that the horses and camels went east over the Bering Strait just as humans made the trek west.