Tarpan - Ice Age

The tarpan was a free-ranging horse population of the western Eurasian steppe from the 18th to the 20th century. What qualifies as a tarpan is subject to debate; whether tarpans were genuine wild horses, feral domestic horses, or hybrids is unclear, though DNA sequencing suggests that at least some tarpans were genetically distinct from modern domestic horses. The last individual believed to be a tarpan died in captivity in Russia in 1918, decades after the last free-ranging tarpans were captured or killed in Ukraine in the late 19th century.