steppe

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Orlando had just published a wide-ranging paper tracing the lineage of horses across the world today to the steppes of Eurasia around 2000 B.C.E.

From Science Magazine

The damaged capsule safely landed Tuesday under a striped parachute in the steppes of Kazakhstan, touching down as scheduled at 5:45 p.m.

From Seattle Times

As a teenager, he’d drive from his family’s cattle ranch, down a sagebrush steppe dotted with juniper and pinyon and into town for a night of dancing.

From Los Angeles Times

Growing up in eastern Ukraine, the artist was enthralled by nature — the swaying grass on the steppe and ever-morphing clouds moving over lakes.

From New York Times

The study also looked at the final era of hunter-gatherers in Europe, beginning 10,000 years ago as warming continued to transform the open steppe to dense forests and rich wetlands.

From Science Magazine