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Spotted Horses May Have Roamed Europe 25,000 Years Ago

Posted by Unknown on from the space-horses-run-the-cia dept.

sciencehabit writes with an excerpt from Science: "About 25,000 years ago, humans began painting a curious creature on the walls of European caves. Among the rhinos, wild cattle, and other animals, they sketched a white horse with black spots. Although such horses are popular breeds today, scientists didn't think they existed before humans domesticated the species about 5000 years ago. Now, a new study of prehistoric horse DNA concludes that spotted horses did indeed roam ancient Europe, suggesting that early artists may have been reproducing what they saw rather than creating imaginary creatures."

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  1. Re:Well by Tukz · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    +1 funny.
    Made me laugh at least.

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  2. Re:Well by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    -1 not-funny...

  3. Re:Well by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    -1 stupid rant.

    What's with this "+1" bullshit? This isn't Google Plus. This isn't Digg. This isn't reddit. This isn't Mozilla or whatever open source projects do that +1 mailing list voting nonsense.

    If you've got mod points, then use them. If you don't, then it's not your place to be rating comments, so pipe down.

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