For a long time it was thought that the ancient rhino species Elasmotherium sibiricum, known as the Siberian unicorn, went extinct between 200,000 and 100,000 years ago. Now improved dating of fossil ...

Elasmotherium might just be the closest thing we’ve ever had to a real-life Mudhorn. Towering and powerful, this Ice Age giant was a prehistoric rhinoceros with a massive horn and a presence that ...

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The first DNA tests on Siberian unicorns have shown that the 4-ton animal lived at the same time as modern humans, according to scientists. By studying fossilized bones, an international team of ...

Five species of rhinoceroses exist today, but the lumbering creatures were once far more plentiful; palaeontologists have identified 250 species that historically roamed throughout Africa, Eurasia and ...

Scientists recently found remains of an ancient creature, the "Siberian Unicorn," hundreds of thousands of years after they were believed to be extinct. These findings were recent published in the ...

The ancient rhinoceros Elasmotherium sibiricum — or more colloquially, the Siberian unicorn — was a shaggy giant mammal with strangely slender legs and a single horn. Despite what you may read today ...

A MONG the extinct animals of the diluvial age, few have left such scanty remains as the elasmotherium. At the beginning of the present century Fischer von Weldheim, when examining the ...