do unicorns exist?

Answer 1

no...

Unicorn-a mythical creature with horns and deerlike features

Answer 2

I saw an interesting theory one time on the History Channel. Archeologists were finding that 19th century archeologists in Greece had pretty much only looked for gold and other valuables in temples, tombs, etc. They tossed the rest into garbage heaps. Some modern archeologists have started going through those garbage heaps, and have found fossilized bones of mammoths, dinosaurs, etc. This may explain the legends about giants and other creatures. How would you feel if you came across a single mammoth leg bone? I think I'd freak out, thinking there must be large people around somewhere, especially since there wasn't carbon dating at the time, so they wouldn't know how old the bones were. The legends of the unicorns were probably similar. There were probably ancient creatures whose bones, when assembled, may have resembled what we think of as unicorns today.

Answer 3

Unicorns are not found in Greek mythology, but rather in accounts of natural history for Greek writers of natural history were convinced of the reality of the unicorn, which they located in India, a distant and fabulous realm for them. The earliest description is from Ctesias who described them as wild asses, fleet of foot, having a horn a cubit and a half in length and colored white, red and black. Aristotle must be following Ctesias when he mentions two one-horned animals, the oryx (a kind of antelope) and the so-called "Indian ***". Strabo says that in the Caucasus there were one-horned horses with stag-like heads. Pliny the Elder mentions the oryx and an Indian ox (perhaps a rhinoceros) as one-horned beasts, as well as "a very fierce animal called the monoceros (μονοκερως), which has the head of the stag, the feet of the elephant, and the tail of the boar, while the rest of the body is like that of the horse; it makes a deep lowing noise, and has a single black horn, which projects from the middle of its forehead, two cubits in length." In De natura animalium, Aelian, quoting Ctesias, adds that India produces also a one-horned horse and says that the monoceros was sometimes called carcazonon, which may be a form of the Arabic carcadn, meaning "rhinoceros".

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As far as I can see - "They are as real as you want them to be".
The Old Dawg

Answer 4

A large body of historical writings mention a bullock animal, the Uri or Uni, which was larger than a bull but smaller than an elephant. It had wide spreading horns ( I imagine similar to those of a long-horn steer) and was therefore used for pushing, much as the Asian elephant is employed. The Uni or Uri became extinct through constantly being slaughtered in the Roman circuses. Historians believe this animal was what gave rise to the myth of the unicorn.

It is interesting that Canton Uri in Switzerland has on its flag a black bull.

This extinct animal was, according to Josephus, the symbol for the Tribe of Joseph (the double birthright son of Israel, Judah only got one portion) with each horn representing his sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, the tribes assigned to "push" or gather together the 12 Tribes in the end of days. These are the most important of the Tribes of Israel.

P.S.
And so sorry to burst Andrew Lloyd Webber's idea that Joseph of Egypt was a Jew. Judah was the first Jew, Joseph was the first Josephite and his posterity the same.

Answer 5

There isn't any evidence that has convinced me to believe unicorns are real.

Answer 6

In this time , as the Now. Yes, they do exist.
I was just watchin' aminal planet.......and I saw
whales that have one long horn ,on what would be there forheads.

Answer 7

there have been no logical evidence that supports unicorns being real, and no i don't believe they are, but it would be cool if they would be ^_^'''

Answer 8

no...at least not anymore. We are still finding newly discovered species from years gone by, so they could have existed at one time...

Answer 9

Perhaps. There is no evidence that supports that they exist. But then again there is no evidence that says they don't.

Answer 10

yes they live in Australia