Guys They Found The Remains Of A Unicorn – But It’s Not What You’re Expecting

30 Mar 2016 by Sloane Hunter in Animals, Environment, History

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If you just forwarded this article to your daughter without reading it, you may be the cause of her nightmares this evening. For this, people, is not very pretty.

Research has revealed that the ‘Siberian unicorn’ roamed the planet far more recently than previously thought, although it probably had no magical powers extending from its horn. Rather, it’s more likely that the mythical creature was fatter, furrier and more like a rhino in real life. I guess those rhino memes are more spot on than we thought.

However, unlike the poor rhino, these ‘unicorns’ has a much longer horn. Okay, okay, here’s an illustration of what it may have looked like:

Known as the ‘Elasmotherium sibiricu’, it was originally thought to have gone extinct 350,000 years ago. But nope, that’s wrong.

A well-preserved fossilised skull found in Kazakhstan reveals the shaggy creature was still alive when PEOPLE walked the planet a mere 29 000 years ago. But scientists are stumped over how it survived for so long:

Most likely, the south of Western Siberia was a [refuge], where this rhino had preserved the longest in comparison with the rest of the range.

We are hoping the find will help us understand what environmental factors played a part in the eventual extinction of the species, and what role migration played in its survival up until that point.

Something we think might come in useful considering our current climate change situation.

Understanding of the past allows us to make more accurate predictions about natural processes in the near future.

[source: cnn]

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