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This hodgepodge of animal bones became a legendary cryptid

Popkin
Jan 12, 2025
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The Magdeburg Unicorn, left (public domain)

Hundreds of years ago, a hodgepodge of incomplete animal skeletons were arranged together into what is now called the "Magdeburg Unicorn". This bizarre beast is made from a rhino skull, mammoth legs, and a narwhal horn. At the time, the people who assembled it thought all the bones were from one creature.

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