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Show Search for Prehistoric Horses. . -For two years' pas agents' o7 William Wil-liam C. Whitney have been searching the western plains for relics of the ancestors an-cestors of the present breed of horses. So far many interesting bones have been resurrected from their burial places in the rocks of the pre-Adamite ags. The horse. In its origin, had several varying prototypes. The National Na-tional History Museum in New York already specimens. Last autumn the fossil remains of a small herd of the species called the hipparion were discovered dis-covered in Nebraska. From them it is believed that a complete animal can be mounted. |