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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 ...
Monster may also be Native, but name was given from Native language by local whites & not the original name, if so. Sea goat – Half goat, half fish; Selkie – Shapeshifting seal people; Water bull – Nocturnal amphibious bull; Water Horse – General name for mythical water dwelling horses of many cultures
Golden coins known as the unicorn and half-unicorn, both with a unicorn on the obverse, were used in Scotland in the 15th and 16th century. In the same realm, carved unicorns were often used as finials on the pillars of Mercat crosses , and denoted that the settlement was a royal burgh .
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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]
In the Kongo language, Abada refers to a mythical animal similar to a unicorn. The Abada, however, has two crooked horns as opposed to a unicorn's single one. The Abada's horns can act as an antidote to poison and disease. It has been described as being the size of a small donkey with the tail of a boar. It also appears to those that are lost.
Here in Providence, Jackie Pires, who works at local music venue Askew, found her unicorn at the end of a shift around 3 a.m., propped on a box outside the door. She suspects it could have been ...
Naso unicornis from New Caledonia A pair of bluespine unicornfish (Naso unicornis) found in shallow water coral reef area of Green Island, a coral reef ecosystem reserve in Taiwan The bluespine unicornfish ( Naso unicornis ), also known as the short-nose unicornfish , is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Acanthuridae ...