Elasmotherium sibiricum

[Melanie]

Elasmotherium sibiricus
Height: 6.5ft (2m)
Lived: 1 million years ago - 10,000 years ago
Sporting a horn well over 6 feet long, Elasmotherium may have been a part
of the inspiration for Unicorns. Of course beauty doesn't seem to be factored
here (much like the story of manatees inspiring the mermaid myth.)

[creationist]

there have been reports that the elasmotherium is still an existing species!

[sordes]

No, it was only assumed that elasmotherium could be the origin of the unicorn myth, for example that fossils or frozen specimens from Siberia were mistaken for modern animals.
Don´t believe in all the creationistic propaganda lies. They even try to tell you that the unicorns of the bible were animals of the species Sivatherium (which has probably survived in early antique times), and because they had one single horn on the head. In fact Sivatherium had 4(!) horns on the the head, from which two were similar to the antlers of a small moose.

[surroundx]

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

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.

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.

Read more:

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

[surroundx]

Shpansky, Andrei Valerievich, Valentina Nurmagаmbetovna, Aliyassova and Ilyina, Svetlana Anatolievna. (2016). The Quaternary Mammals from Kozhamzhar Locality (Pavlodar Region, Kazakhstan). American Journal of Applied Sciences 13(2): 189-199.

[surroundx]

Rivals, Florent et al. (2020). Dramatic change in the diet of a late Pleistocene Elasmotherium population during its last days of life: Implications for its catastrophic mortality in the Saratov region of Russia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 556: 109898. [Abstract]