Indeed -- assuming they're related to horses, they're not artiodactyls like goats and cows with keratin-coated bone horns, and it wouldn't be a dentin tusk like narwhals and elephants; they're perissodactyls like rhinos so they'd presumably have keratinous horns that grow back, like hooves and turtle beaks.
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ceenote@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 147d
Swimming in the ocean, causing a commotion because they are so awesome
GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 146d
They'd beat a polar bear in a fight!
FreeBeard@slrpnk.net · 10 pts · 147d
Technically it's not a horn but a tooth that grows upwards through the skull.
However I'm not sure what the unicorn horn is made of.
grue@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 146d
Keratin.
egrets@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 146d
Indeed -- assuming they're related to horses, they're not artiodactyls like goats and cows with keratin-coated bone horns, and it wouldn't be a dentin tusk like narwhals and elephants; they're perissodactyls like rhinos so they'd presumably have keratinous horns that grow back, like hooves and turtle beaks.
grue@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 146d
No, you misunderstand. I wasn't speculating; I just looked up the Wikpedia page on them and the info was right there.
::: spoiler spoiler
The scientific name is R. unicornis. An Indian rhino is literally a unicorn. :::
OpenStars@piefed.social · 6 pts · 147d
hakunawazo@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 146d
bitteroldcoot@piefed.social · 3 pts · 147d
But narwals eat fish and unicorns eat flowers.
Maybe there are real narwals and fake unicorn narwals. The unicorn ones only show up in the summer for their breeding season.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 147d
That's unicorn propaganda to mislead the masses.
Like Vampires not having reflections or British people having manners.
Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io · 3 pts · 146d
Remember, The Narwhal bacons at midnight.
tacosanonymous@mander.xyz · 1 pts · 146d
How does one bacon?
Reverendender@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 146d
With gusto
saltnotsugar@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 147d
Warm in these narwhals.