History of science

Humans Bred Hybrid Animals 4500 Years Ago in Ancient Mesopotamia

Kungas are the earliest known human-made animal hybrids.

The Standard of Ur shows the use of kungas in warfare. Image source: Wikimedia Commons.

Eva-Marie Geigl, a geneticist at the Institut Jacques Monod, Paris, made an unusual discovery while studying the bones of animals from a burial ground in Northern Syria.