Siberian unicorns, humans may have crossed paths

RNN) - Siberian unicorns and humans may have lived at the same time, scientists concluded after a fossilized skull was found in the central Asian country of Kazakhstan.
Previously thought to have been extinct 350,000 years ago, the animal may have died out about 29,000 years ago, according to a study in the February 2016 American Journal of Applied Science.
The shaggy animal under study resembled a rhinoceros more than the mythical and more horse-like unicorn. With a huge horn on its forehead, Elasmotherium sibiricumstood was about 6-feet tall and 15-feet long and weighed 9,000 pounds.
Scientists at Tomsk State University, which is in Siberia, Russia, speculated that the animal ate mostly grass and, based on the condition and size of the skull, was most likely an old male.
Researchers used radiocarbon dating techniques to determine the age of the well-preserved skull, which was found in the Pavlodar region of Kazakhstan.
How did the animal live to such a late date?
Most likely the south of Western Siberia was a place where the climate was relatively unaltered  as continental climatic change occurred in the rest of the animal's range, said Andrey Shpanski, a paleontologist at TSU. "There is another possibility that it could migrate and dwell for a while in the more southern areas."