There was once an animal called the Siberian unicorn, and it roamed the plains of Russia,
Central Asia and eastern Europe.
IT looked kinda like a buffalo with a big horn.
Maybe the most interesting thing about this animal is that it lived at the same time as
humans, and probably came into contact with them.
Did this unicorn poop rainbows?
Well, no, we don’t think so.
But the fact that a unicorn really existed, is cool enough, don’t you think?
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The legend of the unicorn has been around for a long time.
Myths about unicorns have existed throughout human history.
Basically what we know is, the unicorn was a horse, goat, or some sort of beast with
a single horn.
Ancient greek accounts of natural history mentioned the unicorn.
The bible also describes an animal called the re’em, which is sometimes translated
to unicorn.
In the middle ages and during the renaissance, the unicorn was described as a magical creature
that could only be captured by a virgin.
Its horn was said to have the power to make poisoned water drinkable, and also to heal
sickness.
Ok, so maybe the unicorn wasn’t magical, but One has to wonder, could it be possible
that these mythical creatures were actually based on real animals maybe even animals that
are now extinct.
Some contenders for unicorns include narwhals, who basically look like a cross between a
unicorn and a dolphin.
Narwhal tusks were actually sold as unicorn horns in medieaval times.
Another animal that could have spawned the unicorn myth is rhinos.
And there is an extinct species of rhino with a huge horn that’s actually called the Siberian
unicorn.
The Siberian unicorn also known as The Elasmotherium, weighed 4metric tons and was about the size
of a mammoth.
The Siberian unicorn’s main differentiating characteristic is their huge, thick horn that
sits atop their foreheads.
The exact function for this horn isn’t known, it was probably used for defense, attracting
mates, sweeping snow away from the grass that they ate and even digging for water and plants.
They are related to rhinos, and were herbivores like rhinos.
They split from the rhino group roughly around 43 million years ago.
This means that the Siberian unicorn is the last species belonging to its lineage.
Another huge different betwee the Siberian unicorn and rhinos, is Siberian unicorns galloped,
like horses.
They had longer legs than rhinos and moved around kind of how horses did.
The Siberian Unicorn was previously thought to have gone extinct 100 thousand or even
200 thousand years ago.
But according to new research published in the journal Nature Ecology and Evolution,
it was probably kicking around until very recently, somewhere around 39 thousand years
ago or even 35 thousand years ago.
That means that humans most likely came across it.
Humans and Neanderthals were living in central asia and Siberia around 40 thousand years
ago.
Is it likely that the Siberian unicorn gave birth to the mythical creature the unicorn?
Well, who knows, it could be a possibility.
Siberian unicorns died out completely around 29 thousand years ago, and that’s probably
due to a number of factors.
#1, climate change which had an effect on their food source.
And they also died out because word on the street is, they were really picky eaters.
They are essetntially gigantic prehistoric lawnmowers.
When the earth started to warm up, grasslands started to shrink, they didn’t have much
to eat.
Human hunting also probably led to their extinction.
Humans are probably responsible for the extinction of many animals after the last ice age.
So one thing that we can learn from the Siberian unicorn and its untimely extinction, is how
modern rhinos might react to a change in climate.
After all, rhinos and Siberian unicorns are related, and Interestingly, rhinos are also
picky eaters.
Its one of the reason why rhinos are endangered.
They are picky about their habitat, and any change to environment is one that could lead
to rhino’s going extinct.
What do you think, could mythical unicorns have been based off the Siberian unicorn,
let me know in those comments but that’s all I have for you on that, lets move on to
comment time.
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