Scientists Just Found Out What Australia’s Brumbies Actually Are

Australians grew up on the legend: pure, tough wild horses descended from the colony’s first horses and the Light Horse Walers. Then scientists read their blood. We follow the brumby from the First Fleet in 1788 to the charge at Beersheba, open the Guy Fawkes DNA results, and lay out both sides of today’s Kosciuszko cull fight, then give a straight answer to what brumbies really are.