Elmer Bandit, the 38 year-old competitive trail horse (who uses Easyboots!) and broke the record for lifetime mileage last year, is one of our favorite examples of a geriatric horse.
But a horse now on display at the Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre in Whitehorse, Canada, has him beat by more than a nose. (Although definitely not a live nose).
The fossilized Yukon horse (Equus lambei) is estimated to be 26,000 years old, and is billed as "the best preserved specimen of a mummified, extinct large mammal ever found in Canada," according to an article from Farm Business Communications.
Miners found the horse in 1993. This is the first time it's been offered for display.
Similar to a Przewalski horse, the Yukon horse arose as a species in a region off the Bering Sea about 200,000 years ago. Researchers say they became extinct about 12,000 years ago.
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