Guess what? Unicorns are real! Well, sort of

While they may not look exactly like the mythical horse, Siberian unicorns are real and may have shared the land with humans. Photo: Freeimages.com/Aschaeffer

A long-extinct animal known as the Siberian unicorn, which was actually more like a long-horned rhinoceros, may have walked the Earth 29,000 years ago, at the same time as prehistoric humans, researchers say.

Until now, the Elasmotherium sibiricum was thought to have vanished 350,000 years ago. But research published in the American Journal Of Applied Science describes a far more recent discovery of a well-preserved skull in Kazakhstan.