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The unicorn throne in Denmark. A unicorn horn, also known as an alicorn, [1] is a legendary object whose reality was accepted in Europe and Asia from the earliest recorded times. This "horn" comes from the creature known as a unicorn, also known in the Hebrew Bible as a re'em or wild ox. [2] Many healing powers and antidotal virtues were ...
The best known Elasmotherium species, E. sibiricum, sometimes called the Siberian unicorn, [4] was the size of a mammoth and is often conjectured to have borne a single very large horn. However, no horn has ever been found, and other authors have conjectured that the horn was likely much smaller. Like all rhinoceroses, elasmotheres were ...
The gentle and pensive maiden has the power to tame the unicorn, fresco by Domenichino, c. 1604–1605 (Palazzo Farnese, Rome) [1] The unicorn is a legendary creature that has been described since antiquity as a beast with a single large, pointed, spiraling horn projecting from its forehead. In European literature and art, the unicorn has for ...
Dung, Giao, Chinh, Tuoc, Arctander & MacKinnon, 1993. Range in Vietnam and Laos. The saola (Pseudoryx nghetinhensis), also called spindlehorn, Asian unicorn, or infrequently, Vu Quang bovid, is one of the world's rarest large mammals, a forest-dwelling bovine native to the Annamite Range in Vietnam and Laos.
Dynastinae. Dynastinae or rhinoceros beetles are a subfamily of the scarab beetle family (Scarabaeidae). Other common names – some for particular groups of rhinoceros beetles – include Hercules beetles, unicorn beetles or horn beetles. Over 1,500 species and 225 genera of rhinoceros beetles are known. [2] Many rhinoceros beetles are well ...
See text. Proboscidea is a genus of flowering plant in the family Martyniaceae, some of whose species are known as devil's claw, devil's horn, ram's horn, or unicorn plant. The plants produce long, hooked seed pods. The hooks catch on the feet of animals, and as the animals walk, the pods are ground or crushed open, dispersing the seeds.
A winged unicorn (cerapter, flying unicorn, unisus, pegacorn, unipeg[1]) is a fictional ungulate, typically portrayed as a horse, with wings like Pegasus and the horn of a unicorn. [2] In some literature and media, it has been referred to as an alicorn, a word derived from the Italian word alicorno, [3] (itself from Latin wing āla and horn ...
Moondancer is a unicorn pony who debuted in 1983 as part of the second wave of the Generation 1 Toyline. Moondancer then made her brief appearance in the first My Little Pony special Rescue From Midnight Castle. Moondancer is one of the four kidnapped ponies in Dream Valley during Scorpan's raid.