The colorful coats of the Chincoteague ponies are well know, made famous by books like Misty of Chincoteague. Being a required reading in school (is it still?) every child in America was familiar with the cheerful little ponies on the beach, if they weren't totally obsessed with them. The story of[...]
They have lived in isolation from the rest of the horse world for a hundreds of years, possibly a thousand years, separated by a barrier of marshes, lagoons and sandy beaches. While there has been some selective breeding, they are mostly a primitive breed, heavily bodied, with large heads. They a[...]
In the years following the 1986 disaster, Chernobyl became a dead zone. The 1,017 square miles around the plant had been evacuated, and with the exception of the remaining power plant workers and a few that refused to leave their homes, the area was devoid of humans. It wasn't safe to be there and[...]