[SunkenCiv]

The discovery of a fossil horse tooth in Haiti has given surprising credence to the idea the horses escaped from a Spanish shipwreck off Virginia around 1750. [Young Chincoteague ponies wrestle on Chincoteague Island, part of Virginia's Eastern Shore, in the 1970s.]

Photograph By James L. Stanfield, Nat Geo Image Collection

[CtBigPat]

The scientist, hard at work:

[GaltAdonis]

So they were the great-great-great-great... grandparents
of the Outer Banks North Carolina wild ponies then?

[blam]

Chincoteague Island Ponies