Why Unicorns Are Extinct?

In new research published in the journal Nature Ecology and Evolution, the scientists say the Siberian unicorn

seems to have become extinct during the Ice Age, when climate change reduced its grassy habitat around present-day Russia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, and Northern China.

How did unicorns become extinct?

A key finding is that the Siberian unicorn did not became extinct due to modern human hunting, nor even the peak of the last Ice Age starting around 25,000 years ago. Instead, it succumbed to a more subtle change in climate that reduced grassland from eastern Europe to China.

Did unicorns become extinct?

The unicorn might not be very old at all, and might have still been kicking until 39,000 years ago. This places its extinction “firmly within the late Quaternary extinction event”, between 50,000 and four thousand years ago, in which nearly half of Eurasian mammalian megafauna died out.