Were the cave artists of Pech Merle, France, tripping or taking major artistic license when they painted horses with wild spotted jaguar patterns? DNA analysis of fragments 31 horses that lived in Europe and Siberia 25,000 suggest not, and that they were in fact literalists. “It would appear as if they, at least in this case, were painting things they really saw,” said a researcher involved in the new genetic study.

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