The Vulgate and King James Bible mistranslated the word re'em as this type of creature.
Noted flat-earther Cosmas Indicopleustes claimed that a creature of this type could fling itself from a precipice and escape unhurt. Just before describing a giant Indus River death worm, Ctesias's Indica mentioned a crimson-headed creature of this type. A German mayor named Otto von Geuricke hawked an excavation of one of these creatures on a skeptical Gottfried Leibniz. In a batshit 2016 paper, some Russians claim that genus Elasmotherium inspired myths about this creature 27,000 years ago. Medieval sources allegorize the Incarnation of Christ as this creature, and mention its enmity with (*) elephants. The Vulgate and King James Bible mistranslated the word re'em as this type of creature. Remains of these cryptids were legendarily, but not actually, used in the throne of Denmark. The heraldic symbol of Scotland is, for 10 points, what creature often analogized to the Japanese kirin, a legendary ungulate which only a maiden can tame?
Noted flat-earther Cosmas Indicopleustes claimed that a creature of this type could fling itself from a precipice and escape unhurt.
unicorns [or Monoceros; or Monocerata; accept any answer indicating a horse, ass, or four-legged beast with a single horn growing from its head]