Real 'Siberian unicorn' remains found

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The real 'Siberian unicorn', or Elasmotherium sibiricum.


New research has revealed the 'Siberian unicorn' roamed the planet far more recently than we originally thought.

The bad news is it looked nothing like the mythical creatures portrayed in so many fairy tales.

It was fatter and furrier, and in reality more rhino than stallion. It did, however, have a huge horn

This real unicorn, or 'Elasmotherium sibiricu', was originally thought to have gone extinct 350,000 years ago.

But a well-preserved fossilized skull found in Kazakhstan reveals the shaggy creature was still alive and walking this earth a mere 29,000 years ago, according to a study published this month in the American Journal of Applied Sciences.

There is now some mystery surrounding how it survived so long.

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http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/29/living/real-unicorn-remains/

[JackInGreen]

1. Oh, Shining Armor

...Twighly, Rarity my love...
we hardly knew you.

[dchill]

2. So, basically, both ponies AND unicorns are REAL!

[NV Whino]

3. My dreams are shattered

Although I'm sure it was a perfectly nice beastie. 🦄

[merrily]

4. What an interesting looking animal! Likely, other animals that messed with it were soon sorry.

[sarge43]

5. Recent enough for modern humans to have seen them, maybe hunted them n/t

[jwirr]

6. If you do not mind I am not going to tell my little girls.

[vkkv]

7. A theory of mine is that the "Abominable Snowman" was in actuality just Neanderthals

who were seen by and occasionally mixed with Cro-magnons.

[1monster]

10. Science now says that Neanderthals did more than just occasionally

mixed with Cro-magnons.

We all, pretty much carry on genes from the Neanderthals. A dentist I went to when I was younger told me that my very large, serviceable wisdom teeth were a throw back to the Neanderthals. :/

[vkkv]

11. Neanderthal genes are also said to give one a stronger immunity to certain diseases.. eom

[1monster]

12. Good! I lucked out in the gene pool then!

[DrBulldog]

8. 50 years from now . . .

"Daddy, can we go get some Siberian unicorn bone marrow and make a unicorn?"

"Sure sweetie, I have some time this afternoon . . ."

[Warpy]

13. Interesting

I've often thought all the folk tales about dragons, unicorns and other weird beasts of myth were based on fossilized remains uncovered during the late Stone Age into the Roman period. They just had little ability to reconstruct what they had into the extinct animal so they made up shapes and stories of mythical heroes to go with them.