Spots before their eyes

Ancient artists 25,000 years ago were not abstract, symbolic, dadaist or post-paleolithic painters expressing some deeper truth about their inner workings, but realists who recreated what they saw in the natural world around them on cave walls, according to research which proves that the 'leopard' phenotype seen in modern horses did indeed exist in those distant days. Read here how our ancestors didn't willy-nilly daub black spots on their white horses simply because they thought it made them look pretty or wacky or magical or meaningful, but because dappled horseflesh was exactly what they saw trotting past their caves.

So, sometimes a spotted horse is just a spotted horse.