From mules to ligers, the list of human-made hybrid animals is long. And, it turns out, ancient. Meet the kunga, the earliest known hybrid animal bred by people. The ancient equine from ...

A team of geneticists, archaeologists, and paleontologists believes they’ve settled the identity of an enigmatic equid from ancient Mesopotamia. That animal is a kunga, which the researchers show was ...

Maureen Kunga stepped into her solo career with the release of her debut single, streaming on all digital platforms The new song is a special dedication to her beloved mother, celebrating love, ...

The elite used the highly-prized, donkey-like creatures for travel and warfare. Glenn Schwartz/John Hopkins University The kungas of Syro-Mesopotamia were ancient equines that roamed the region 4,500 ...

Maddy has a degree in biochemistry from the University of York and specializes in reporting on health, medicine, and genetics. Maddy has a degree in biochemistry from the University of York and ...

Bronze Age bioengineers created the earliest hybrid animal – a majestic horselike creature known as a kunga that had a donkey mom, a Syrian wild ass for a father and lived 4,500 years ago, according ...

Press-shy and determined to let his food speak for itself, chef-owner Thinly Dorji would only say “We eat it for breakfast” — and that through an interpreter — when asked about tsampa, a barley flour ...