[martin_fierro]

HORSEFEATHERS!

[A_Former_Democrat]

Interesting. They have some facial similarities to donkeys and buffalo IMO

[blackdog]

Considering horses spend 16 hours a day out of 24 with their head down eating, this is amazing. My guess would be that they enjoy no competition for the sources of food they have adapted to. Also horses will dehydrate to death even in a snow pack without a source of running water to drink from. These horses have obviously overcome that trait as well.

[vladimir998]

“’This is truly amazing as it implies that all traits now seen in Yakutian horses are the product of very fast adaptive processes, taking place in about 800 years,’ “

No. This is merely proof that someone purposefully and very deliberately bred the horses over generations to increase their chances of surviving the cold.

That’s much more impressive than imaginary “fast adaptive processes”.

[ctdonath2]

Third pic: I know a Tauntan when I see one.

[sparklite2]

That’s some fast adapters.

[The Antiyuppie]

But there are other examples of very quick (in evolutionary terms) changes, even in people. For example, people in Siberia have very, very rich and thick blood, as do people in Bolivia (mountainous). The people in Bolivia’s mountainous regions are also very barrel-chested and actually look different in shape than other nearby peoples.

[Tucker39]

What an inane, blithering crock! So they “evolved” to where they could srvive the cold over 800 years, did they? And how, may I ask, did the original arrivals from Mongolia survive the cold for the first 500 years or so.

Answer: God designed the original equine progenitors with the genetic potential to withstand cold when it is encountered; as well as withstanding heat, as Arabian horses do.

These fraudulent faux scientists should be laughed out of intelligent circles.

[Jack Hydrazine]

“Fascinating new scientific research has found that their seemingly built-in protection against extreme Arctic conditions is a recent phenomenon, at least by the normal tortoise-paced standards of evolution.”

Adaptation is not evolution.

[chopperman]

To prove their point, they should import some elephants from Africa and give them a few hundred years to evolve into woolly Mammoths.

[Larry Lucido]

[Jan_Sobieski]

I am no genetic scientist, but my studies have revealed that geneticists have never witnessed a beneficial mutation. Therefore the growth of hair in this species is natural variation, not mutation, and therefore not evolution!

[blam]

Laika Dogs

[blam]

Extinction is key to terrestrial vertebrate diversity, new research reveals

[SatinDoll]

Horses, like bison, evolved on the plains that existed in front of the ancient ice sheets.

The optimum comfort temperature for horses is 40 degrees. They are an animal of the ice age.

[cripplecreek]

Life is adaptable.

[csvset]

Wil...Burrr!

[bert]

then there is economic evolution depicted as well. It appears the yatuskian man has somehow acquired a Mossy Oak parka.

[fishtank]

This is a stupid article.

“Engineered adaptability” is the plausible explanation for this effect.