did unicorns ever exist?

Question

i hear dthere was one left years ago in india but i ams sure it was a myth did they ever exist and just die out?

Answer 1

Unicorns do exist. They left this plane centurie ago alonside the fey folk and most other creatures that are now called Myths.

Answer 2

According to the book of Genesis, God gave Adam the task of naming everything he saw. In some translations of the Bible, the Unicorn was the first animal named; thereby, elevating it above all other beasts in the universe. When Adam and Eve left paradise, the Unicorn went with them and came to represent purity and chastity. Thus, the Unicorn's purity in the Western legends stems from its Biblical beginnings.

The Bible also offers an explanation about why the Unicorn has not been seen for so long. During the flood that engulfed the world for 40 days and 40 nights, Noah took two of each animal to safety, but Unicorns were not among them. A Jewish folk tale mentions they were originally on board but demanded so much space and attention that Noah banished them. They either drowned or managed to swim during the flood and still survive somewhere in the world or, as some believe, evolved into the narwhale.

Answer 3

no!! unicorns have never existed! Maybe you heard about a rhino or something!! lol

Check this out:

Baron Georges Cuvier maintained that as the unicorn was cloven-hoofed it must therefore have a cloven skull (making impossible the growth of a single horn); to disprove this, Dr. W. Franklin Dove, a University of Maine professor, artificially fused the horn buds of a calf together, creating a one-horned bull.[14]

P.T. Barnum once exhibited a unicorn skeleton, which was exposed as a hoax.

Since the rhinoceros is the only known land animal to possess a single horn, it has often been supposed that the unicorn legend originated from encounters between Europeans and rhinoceroses. The Woolly Rhinoceros would have been quite familiar to Ice-Age people, or the legend may have been based on the surviving rhinoceroses of Africa. Europeans and West Asians have visited Sub-Saharan Africa for as long as we have records.

Answer 4

Unicorns have never existed. However, there used to be a huge market for "unicorn horns", which were used medicinally . These so-called 'horns' were actually horns from Narwhals, a type of porpoise that has a long horn on its forehead. Many also think that the ancient Ice age Elasmotherium, a rhinoceros found in Eurasia, could have spurred stories about unicorns. It had a single horn and some believe that it survived past the ice age.

Answer 5

The origin of the unicorn legend was an ancient Greek traveller named Ctesius who claimed he had travelled to India, and saw many fabulous creatures including the Unicorn (unicornis the Latin translation of the Greek word monocerus = one-horn).

He was probably just trying to describe the rhinoceros -- having to do it in words for people who have never seen one is pretty hard! So he mostly compares its features with animals people know about like horses, and elephants, deer and boars.

This was his description:
"The fiercest animal of India is the Unicorn, which in the rest of the body resembles a horse, but in the head a stag, in the feet an elephant, and in the tail a boar, and has a deep bellow, and a single black horn three feet long projecting from the middle of the forehead. They say that it is impossible to capture this animal alive."

Here is a collection of the oldest descriptions of the unicorn (written 2000-2500 years ago):
http://www.theoi.com/Thaumasios/HippoiMonokerata.html

Answer 6

Considering that they just recently discovered Hobbits were a real and actual race (in Indonesia), and there is also archeological evidence of "giants" (10' tall as normal), who knows? There could have been. Just because we haven't found any evidence doesn't mean they didn't exist.

But likewise, the absence of evidence doesn't mean they may have existed.

Still, I often wonder about mythological stories. They were originally verbal histories passed down from generation to generation, so maybe there was something like it. There are plenty of horned animals. Who's to say 10,000 years ago there weren't some horses with a horn too? There's nothing that would prevent the DNA from making it happen.

I highly doubt they were magical and could fly, however. LOL.

Answer 7

Unicorns do exist, but they are NOT equine. They are usually mutant goats that have one horn growing from their forehead instead of a horn growing out each side of their head. The fur of the goat can be trimmed to resemble a horse, but unicorns are NOT horses. They are very rare and I did meet one at a Medieval Rennaisance Fair, but they do exist and have no supernatural powers. They are just mutant goats.

Answer 8

There is no questions about the unicorns existence.. The question is why did man-kind hunted them into non-existence... Then you realizes that man-kind was not a good conserve of animals. And when man-kind made up the fable that unicorns horns were magical there went the unicorn........... I know that many people will never believe that but they never went on a trip to Eastern Europe or some of those castles in England or Germany where they had a so called unicorn horn under glass...............................................

Answer 9

yes they did, but depending on your religion how they are no longer here.
christians say they were too busy playing to get on the ark and others say they were killed by greed and "horn envy" (sorry about the pun)
My ex husband visited Germany when he was a child ( around 8 yrs old, he is 32 now) and he swears that he saw one not 20 feet from him. but I wasn't there and can't say it is ABSOLUTELY true.
If they are no more, then I think that people killed them off. Never can tell tho.
A few years ago, Paul Harvey (a respected radio journalist who specializes in the obscure) said that a deer was discovered in Vietnam that has gills and lungs. also a turtle that actually breathes thru his bum. Hard to believe, yes, but i trust Paul.

Answer 10

yes they do we have one that plays with the fairies in the garden and they leave hoof prints in the snow but only when its 1/2 " or so as it would be to deep for the fairies to ride them, they also make stools that the fairies dry for the winter fires when its cold, they invented the fairy tales all the fairies would blind fold themselves in turn and try to stick the tale and the horn on the unicorn cut out, where do you think the donkey tail game came from.