Yeti does some googling

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Lucky for Yeti and Chewy the girls resolve their differences. Yeti decides to go on to google to do some searching for unicorns being real. He finds a great article and begins reading it.

 

‘Tens of thousands of years ago, unicorns did, in fact, exist. They were just more hideous than you’d ever imagine. In real life, the Siberian unicorn looked more like a giant, hairy rhino than a Lisa Frank horse. It fed its six-and-a-half-foot, four-ton frame by eating lots of grass.

The discovery of real unicorns isn’t new, but according to a new study in the American Journal of Applied Science, they roamed the Earth much more recently than previously thought. Researchers from Russia’s Tomsk State University found a Siberian unicorn skull in Kazakhstan and dated it to around 29,000 years ago, disproving the original theory that the species went extinct 350,000 years ago.’ (Info here)

In fact, according to new research published in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution, early humans lived alongside 9,000-pound Siberian unicorns, which bear no resemblance to any elegant, rainbow-colored depiction of the mythical creatures we’ve imagined. While scientists have known of these unicorns’ existence for decades, they previously believed that the beasts went extinct around 200,000 years ago. After analyzing unicorn DNA for the first time, scientists have come to realize they were way off; Elasmotherium sibiricum were roaming Eastern Europe and Central Asia until at least 39,000 years ago, meaning they coexisted with humans.

The new findings also shed light on the cause of the rhinoceros-esque animal’s untimely extinction: climate change. According to the study, the Siberian unicorn couldn’t withstand the start of the ice age in Eurasia, which froze much of the ground and reduced the grass on which it subsisted.

“If we look at timing, it’s during a period of climate change, which wasn’t extreme, but it did cause a whole bunch of much colder winters that we think really altered the extent of the grassland in the area,” Alan Cooper of the Australian Centre for Ancient DNA told ScienceAlert. “The worrying thing about it is it shows you don’t have to have major climate change to have vegetation responses that can wipe out a species — and this is before humans had restricted animals’ ranges. Can you imagine what will happen today?” (Info here)

Yeti is more than satisfied that the article proves that they did exist and still do exist. After all Misty is alive and she exists here in Candy Town!

Let’s continue here - Misty sees the two beautiful unicorns

Start at the beginning - Misty falls in love