Scientists said the creature was more similar to a rhinoceros than a horse and went extinct 29,000 years ago.
According to a study recently published in the American Journal of Applied Science , an extinct creature sometimes described as a ” Siberian unicorn ” wandered the Earth for longer than scientists thought and is likely to have shared his life with the scientists. humans.
It was believed that the Elasmotherium Sibiricum became extinct 350,000 years ago. But the discovery of a skull in the Pavlodar region of Kazakhstan provides evidence that it actually went extinct about 29,000 years ago.
Fossil discovered in Siberia suggests that unicorns coexisted with humans
It sounds incredible, but unfortunately for all the believers of the beautiful creature, it was more like a rhinoceros than a horse. The animal is 1.85 meters tall and was 4.50 meters long and was more comparable to a woolly mammoth than a stylized and magical horse.
After this discovery the scientists are looking for why it survived longer than estimated.
“Most likely, the southern part of Western Siberia was a refuge where the creature persevered more than usual compared to the rest of its pack,” said Andrei Shpanski, a paleontologist at Tomsk State University. “There is another possibility that this could migrate and live longer in the areas further south.”
