Yes Virginia, there are unicorns just like there was a Santa Claus to base it all on.
There actually were several varieties of unicorns much like varieties of rhinoceros, elephant, mammoth and horse abounded from the "ice age era".
The giant sloth to the saber tooth cat are remnants from a race of creatures unique to a period of time in history which simply did not have adequate genetic resources to shift to a new modern age, although remnants from antiquity did survive in small pockets as the mammoths did in the Arctic to around 1000 AD.
The Asian variety of this animal was Qilin, but was more of the leather nature of the modern rhinoceros while the west Asian variety known as the unicorn was more well furred. It is part of this mystery in a confusing aspect of this horned horse did appear with cloven hooves and is the creature referred to in some annals. The cloven variety though is a separate genus, but still of the unicorn family, much like the Mule Footed Hog is still of the swine family, but it has a horse hoof and not the cloven hoof.
They never were large creatures, but were sedate to the point of familiarity would tame them much like horses are, and as horses are, they too could become agitated and cause injury.
Colorations were white, red and brown, with the white variety surviving the longest in the west while the armoured variety with a denuded skin like the elephant only being indigenous in the east.
Both the eastern and western cultures bastardized the image of the unicorn, in the western peoples romanticized the animal into the beauty of the Arabian horses while the eastern peoples infused this animal with traits of power in dragon and lion. Legends do that as every human creates mythological animals in their own image as they do gods.
The unicorns were capable of being ridden for ceremonial purposes as some rhino were even trained, but like the zebra their nature was one of a temperamental nature and lacking stamina. The few efforts made to reproduce them were not successful by humans of antiquity as the genus was unique, in not being of the ass family to cross with horses and not being of the true equine to produce even a "mule" which was not capable of breeding.
These animals are not to be confused with the centaur or pan type goat boys, which indeed were actual creatures produced as this blog scientifically and exclusively wrote of years ago, due to volcanic activity in European regions which in turn produces a chemical barrier break to amino acids in various species for cross species breeding, in this case it was fertility rites in perverts were sexing goats and cows before the goddess, and the volcanic waters caused the sperm to cross the barrier of the egg, and one produced these cross species animals incapable for reproducing, thankfully.
The unicorn though like most modern species have gone the way of legend. They never were numerous and just as one does not find millions of buffalo, elk or deer skeletons from even 100 years ago in North America, due to natural predations from weather to rodents, the unicorn has no known surviving records except the legends they produced.
If camels had not survived, people would be mocking them as legend too, as much as rhinoceros being a horned animal that possibly could not exist.
Unicorn milk was sweet though, but did not have a great deal of butterfat, so cheese making was not an ambrosia of the royals, and as they required reproduction to produce milk that situation was the rarest of all.
The meat seemed to have greasy feel to it, but once cooked had a dry horse like quality to it. Nothing of note and why the eating of equines or dromedaries was never in vogue.
There is not really much reason to continue on explaining details about them as it is not like one is going to be running across one unless one reverses the time flow and steps back through an eddy.
Moving onto a new subject.
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