How a change in climate wiped out the 'Siberian unicorn'
- Written by Kieren Mitchell, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Australian Centre for Ancient DNA (ACAD) & Centre for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage (CABAH), University of Adelaide
An artist's impression of Siberian unicorns (_Elasmotherium_) walking in the steppe grass on a cloudy day.Shutterstock/Elenarts
A mysterious shaggy giant species of rhinoceros – named the Siberian unicorn due to its enormous single horn – turns out to have survived in western Russia until just 36,000 years ago, according to research publ...
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