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Extinct 'Siberian unicorn' may have lived alongside humans, fossil suggests

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Post by Guest Thu Mar 31, 2016 2:46 pm

Scientists said that creature, which looked more like a rhino than a horse, went extinct 29,000 years ago instead of 350,000 after finding skull in Kazakhstan



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 Painting of the Elasmotherium sibiricum or ‘Siberian unicorn’ by Heinrich Harder. Photograph: Public Domain





An extinct creature sometimes described as a “Siberian unicorn” roamed the Earth for much longer than scientists previously thought, and may have lived alongside humans, according to a study in the American Journal of Applied Science. Scientists believed Elasmotherium sibiricum went extinct 350,000 years ago. But the discovery of a skull in the Pavlodar region of Kazakhstan provides evidence that they only died out about 29,000 years ago. Unfortunately, despite its sizable horn, the “Siberian unicorn” looked more like a rhinoceros than the mythical creature its nickname refers to. It was about 6 feet tall, 15 feet long, and weighed about 9,000 pounds, making it more comparable to a woolly mammoth than a horse.


https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/mar/29/siberian-unicorn-extinct-humans-fossil-kazakhstan





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Post by eddie Thu Mar 31, 2016 5:17 pm

He's got the horn.
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Post by Guest Thu Mar 31, 2016 5:21 pm

eddie wrote:He's got the horn.


Indeed totally agree Eddie...

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Post by Ben Reilly Thu Mar 31, 2016 6:58 pm

This guy became the legendary unicorn ... dino bones inspired tales of dragons ... and probably the tiny early hominids like the "Hobbit people" inspired tales of fairies and elves.
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