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Unicorn is a mythical creature with a horse-shaped horns on his forehead. Which makes it special, animal blood was said to be a panacea and is able to make a person live forever.
Whether real or mythical unicorn mere, not known for sure. However, recently scientists have discovered fossils of animals were remarkably similar appearance.
The fossilized bones thought to have come from a giant rhinoceros-like creature that died 350 thousand years ago.
As quoted by the Daily Mail the scientists say that species named Elasmotherium sibiricum was still alive in some regions in Kazakhstan until about 26 thousand years ago.
That's when the animals could be the size of a mammoth and weighs 5 tons that year was known by humans.
Early humans began to spread to Asia more than 50 thousand years ago and moved to Siberia at least 35 thousand years ago.
"It's probably the area south of Western Siberia a refuge, so this is where the rhino longest preserved compared to other places," said Dr. Andrei Shpanski, paleontology experts of Tomsk State University, as well as leader of the study.
He added that there is another possibility, that these animals migrate and live temporarily in the southern region more broadly.
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| Fragments of skull Elasmotherium sibiricum. (Source American Journal of Applied Science) |
The researchers found fragments of a giant Siberian rhinoceros skulls near the village Kozhamazhar, Priirtysh Pavlodar region, in northeast Kazakhstan. The findings coincided with the relics bioson and prehistoric mammoth.
Elasmotherium sibircum allegedly spread widely in Siberia after appeared about 2.6 million years ago and the available evidence leads to the expectation that most of these species went extinct about 350 thousand years ago.
Her home is a vast region stretching from the River Don near Voronezh in Russia to the east side of Kazakhstan today.
Fossilized relics show that the animal can reach a length of about 4.6 meters and a height of more than 2 meters.
Thus, this animal is one of the largest rhino ever lived. The size is larger than the woolly rhinoceros thought to have lived in the same timeframe.
Although no horn ever found, the research on the skull showed a
bony lump that is suspected to be the cornerstone horn keratin, similar to that of modern African rhino. Horn it allegedly could reach up to 90 cm in diameter with a length of several meters.
Paleontologists have also explained how they had heard stories about the Tatars in Siberia enormous horned unicorn that require board drag to move.
It could be Elasmotherium sibircum trigger a fairy tale about a unicorn.
Custom horn Elasmotherium sibiricum based on the size of the skull, on display at the London Museum of Natural History.
Animals were allegedly using the horns magnitude to drive the competitors and to remove snow from shrubs in the winter. It also has long legs so that it can run like a horse and not just forward ducking like a modern rhinoceros.
By using radio carbon dating, Dr. Shpanski and his colleagues found that the age of the parts of the skull was about 26 038 years, is still quite young.
Skull quite durable with some parts of cracks, but no signs have been worn. Said Dr. Shpanski, "Most likely, it is the males that are very large."
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"The size of this rhino is the largest of which is in the writings, and the proportion is typical."
He added that the possibility of climate change in Siberia which resulted in many Elasmotherium sibircum dead, although local conditions in Kazakhstan allows the majority to survive.
This is not the first time scientists find a final settlement species suspected ice age had long been extinct. Woolly mammoths thought to be extinct 12,000 years ago, but there are some that can last up to about 4500 years ago on the island of Wrangle, Arctic sea, just north of Russia.
Dr. Shpanski said, "Our research customize understanding of the environmental conditions in the geological past in general. Understanding of the past allows us to make more accurate predictions about natural processes in the future - still about climate change. "
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| Sibiricum Elasmotherium size comparison with modern humans and rhinos. (Source Wikipedia) |
Earlier, in 2012, North Korea claimed to have found a unicorn nest near a temple in Pyongyang.
KCNA report even asserted, one of the unicorn in the nest it is the ride King of Korea, Tomyong, founder of the empire that ruled over most of China and the Korean Peninsula in the 3rd century BC until the 7th century AD.
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