The group perishes, yet the horses swim to a nearby island and make due.

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"The seasons traveled every which way," the book goes, "and the horses embraced the New World as their own."

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In their freshly discovered opportunity, they ended up being wild — or in fact, wild, trained however untamed.

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Today, the Chincoteague Volunteer Fire Company, which deals with the southern portion of this pony populace for authentic reasons, declares the wreck history of the island horses.

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The National Park Service, which deals with the northern half, tells a determinedly less heartfelt story: seventeenth century pioneers presumably carried these horses with them.

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Enter now the "cow" tooth, really a pony tooth, erroneously inventoried many years prior by archeologists unearthing a neglected sixteenth century Spanish settlement.

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What's more, intriguingly, a new DNA examination recommends that the cutting edge breed this Spanish pilgrim horse is most firmly connected with is, as a matter of fact, the Chincoteague horse.

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Given the hereditary likeness, might the legend at some point be truly all things considered were these strange horses additionally Spanish pioneer horses that originally showed up by wreck?

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Nicolas Delsol, presently a postdoctoral specialist at the Florida Museum of Natural History, was not pondering any of this while managing the inconvenient "cow" tooth for his Ph.D. exposition.

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Delsol picked 24 to dissect DNA from and — simply his karma — one tooth had groupings that looked extremely strange

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He was keen on steers training in the Americas, and the exhibition hall's assortments contained many cow teeth from Puerto Real, a sixteenth century Spanish settlement in cutting edge Haiti.

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Delsol picked 24 to dissect DNA from and — simply his karma — one tooth had groupings that looked extremely strange. He set it to the side for quite a long time to complete his cows project.

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