Wednesday 30 March 2016

A fossilised skull has revealed when the last 'Siberian unicorn' lived on Earth

A fossilised skull has revealed when the last 'Siberian unicorn' lived on Earth

For decades, scientists have estimated that the Siberian unicorn - a long-extinct species of mammal that looked more like a rhino than a horse - died out some 350,000 years ago , but a beautifully preserved skull found in Kazakhstan has completely overturned that assumption. Turns out, these incredible creatures were still around as recently as 29,000 years ago.

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