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

www.sciencealert.com ^ | 27 MAR 2016 | JOSH HRALA

[Red Badger]

Unicorn is /was real PinGGG!..............

[Pearls Before Swine]

Rainbow skittles, too?

[Red Badger]

It was killed by an ancestor of Donald Trump and George Bush................

[aomagrat]

Killed by global warming no doubt.

[shotgun]

“According to early descriptions”

From where or whom did these descriptions come from 29,000 years ago?

[Red Badger]

Moscow...............

[shotgun]

Either that or some early form of a Frenchman. I hear they like horse meat.

[Hieronymus]

The question on researchers’ minds is how this unicorn lasted so much longer than those that died out hundreds of thousands of years earlier.

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Gary Larson knew: He didn’t smoke

https://eisdoxan.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/farsidedinosaurs.jpg

[Popman]

Elasmotherium sibiricum

If you google the name of this beast, most of the drawings show a much different looking image of this animal....

The Image in the article looks more like a horse, most of the google images look like a rhino...

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Red Badger.

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 newly found skull, which was remarkably well-preserved, was found... Researchers from Tomsk State University were able to date it to around 29,000 years ago via radiocarbon dating techniques. Based on the size and condition of the skull, it was likely a very old male, they suggest, but how it actually died remains unknown.

Well, obviously it died of old age, aged at least 321K.

[Red_Devil 232]

“Killed by global warming no doubt.”

Which the last paragraph of the article implies!

[PAR35]

Apparently, it didn’t make it onto the Ark.

[PAR35]

Some of those images look like bison with a horn.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

Now we have this:

[Red Badger]

According to the song, no it didn’t................

[Sirius Lee]

There’s evidence that wooly mammoths still trod Wrangle Island while the Great Pyramids were being built.

[JoeProBono]

[hadaclueonce]

Kazakhstan Chamber of Commerce is hoping for a boost in tourism.

take a jacket.

[Pontiac]

The team hopes that the find will help them better understand how environmental factors played a role in the creature’s extinction

Knowing how the species survived for so long, and potentially what wiped it out in the end, could allow us to make more informed choices about the future of our own species, as we find ourselves in a rather perilous situation.

I can’t believe that they are trying to create a link between a creature that died 29,000 years ago and global warming.

IF climate change had anything to do with this creature’s extinction then to me it proves that they can not definitively link technology and climate change.

If natural processes can cause climate change then it is nearly impossible definitively say that man’s impact on the ecology is the cause of climate change.

This website should change its name to Science Propaganda