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luxuryballstoday at 1:22 PM1 replyview on HN

yeah I don’t see why not, maybe they were hunted to extinction, maybe they even had medicinal properties, heck the most mythical part of the fable might be the virgin


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Retrictoday at 2:38 PM

Because 100,000 years is rather extreme to have any kind of myth survive. Instead the ultra long spiral horn likely comes from narwhal as in people could hold and sell “unicorn” horns.

https://www.thevintagenews.com/2017/01/23/in-medieval-europe...

Accounts of unicorns in antiquity had rather different horns.

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