700,000 year old horse!!!

"Ludovic Orlando and Eske Willerslev , Centre for GeoGenetics have beaten sequencing of the ancient DNA record by about 10 times. In collaboration with Danish and international colleagues , they have able to record important genomic changes over the last 700.000 years of evolution of the horse lineage."

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v499/n7456/full/nature12323.html

http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/5052/20131123/oldest-dna-sequenced-done-breakthrough-technology.htm

http://geogenetics.ku.dk/latest-news/a-700.000-year-old-horse-gets-its-genome-sequenced/