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The other three subfamilies are more predominant in Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand, and some are found in Burma and Nepal. Some species occur outside this region, in India, China, Vietnam and Japan. [1] One species is even endemic to New Guinea. [2] The oldest fossils of the family are known from the Cenomanian aged Burmese amber of Myanmar. [3]
An equine form of the unicorn was mentioned by the ancient Greeks in accounts of natural history by various writers, including Ctesias, Strabo, Pliny the Younger, Aelian, [2] and Cosmas Indicopleustes. [3] The Bible also describes an animal, the re'em, which some translations render as unicorn. [2] The unicorn continues to hold a place in ...
Other names used by minority groups in the saola's range are lagiang , a ngao and xoong xor [9] In the press, saolas have been referred to as "Asian unicorns", [10] an appellation apparently due to its rarity and reported gentle nature, and perhaps because both the saola and the oryx have been linked with the unicorn.
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The best known Elasmotherium species, E. sibiricum, sometimes called the Siberian unicorn, [4] was among the largest known rhinoceroses, with an estimated body mass of around 4.5 tonnes (9,900 lb), comparable to an elephant, and is often conjectured to have borne a single very large horn. However, no horn has ever been found, and other authors ...
Coelodasys unicornis, the unicorn caterpillar moth, unicorn prominent or variegated prominent, is a species of moth in the family Notodontidae. It was first described by James Edward Smith in 1797 and is found in North America south of the Arctic. [1] [2] The wingspan is 24–35 mm. [3] There is one generation per year.
The disposal of Unicorn, expected to be completed by the end of this month, would allow Clicks to obtain new pharmacy licences. South African pharmacy chain Clicks to sell drug maker after court ...
Naso was first proposed as a genus in 1801 by Bernard Germain de Lacépède when he described Naso fronticornis as a new species from Jeddah and Mauritius. [2] Lacépède's name was an unnecessary replacement of Chaetodon unicornis described by Peter Forsskål in 1775 from Jeddah. [8]