sibiricum is also known as the "Siberian unicorn," because of the large horn atop its head. SCIENTISTS WANT TO CLONE THIS EXTINCT, FROZEN PREHISTORIC HORSE. E. sibiricum was enormous, ...

The researchers planted the seedling in five patterns: monoculture of C. odorata, E. lindleyanum, and X. sibiricum (one individual in each pot) and competition planting (C. odorata + E ...

Previous interpretations of E. sibiricum bones suggested that they died out 200,000 years ago, but recent analysis hints that E. sibricum fossils are much younger than that, dating to at least ...

Scientists found a fossilized skull of an ancient animal called Elasmotherium sibiricum, and it might be the closest thing to a real unicorn that ever existed. This animal lived around 30,000 ...

The last unicorn. This natural scarcity may have been one of the factors that tipped the Siberian unicorn into extinction some 39,000 years ago, around the same time that Neanderthals went extinct and ...

E. sibiricum was a tremendous animal, and a strange one. It weighed around 3.5 tons, but in spite of its massive heft, it had relatively slender limbs, suggesting it was an adept runner.

But first, the good news: According to a study published last month in the American Journal of Applied Science, a species called Elasmotherium sibiricum — the "Siberian unicorn" — went extinct ...

An extinct giant rhinoceros, sometimes described as the “Siberian unicorn,” lived on the planet much longer than scientists previously thought, new research shows.

The ancient rhinoceros Elasmotherium sibiricum — or more colloquially, the Siberian unicorn — was a shaggy giant mammal with strangely slender legs and a single horn. Despite what you may read ...