To many, Unicorns are nothing more than a mythical type of horse that could never exist. HOWEVER compared to many other mythical creatures, are horses really so outlandish? I personally feel that Unicorns COULD have existed, although I feel that many of the stories about them are nothing more than fables.

Has anyone else given this any real thought?

I have thought from time to time that they could have been real. Every story comes from a base of fact, doesn't it? How are we to know that unicorns weren't an extinct race of horse? I personally think that unicorns used to exist but are now extinct or have evolved.

Unicorns only look like a horse.

They have a head resembling that of a fine boned horse with one horn, cloven feet like that of a goat or deer and the tail of a lion. So they're not really horses in any way, they just look like them.

I have never believe them to be anything more than a romantic myth. But at that time I hadn't read about horses bred with zebras and that they had goat features too.

I wonder if maybe, there was once a hybrid of a goat with a miniature horse? Maybe it would have had some of those features, including the horn.

As my username suggests, I love to read and watch a movie involving unicorns. In Harry Potter, it was told that they give you immortal life, but its a half life, if you drink the blood of a unicorn.

Althoug I love unicorns, I don't believe that they really exist in the real world. They only exist in the fantasy world along with other creatures like pegasi and centaurs.

I seem to recall reading about a scientist that tried to 'create' a unicorn by transplanting the horn buds of baby goats to the centre of their heads.

We can't really know for sure when scientists could bred a horse that has a horn in its forehead. Everything that is in the science fictions, the scientists are trying to make it into real life. Time will tell when we will actually see a real life unicorn.

I don't see the point in creating one. What good would it serve us? It's not like it's going to further the struggle of mankind by creating a mythical animal.

I hope no one ever tries to create one. It is scary when we want to change the created creatures of this world, just for the sake of doing it.

Playing iwth Gods creation is dangerous, Unicorns are part of fantasy and fairytale land and should stay there.

I think that makes us humans, being creative. This thread http://www.equineboard.com/horse-bred-with-a-zebra-343.html
talks about breeding horses with zebras. There might come a time when a mad scientist will breed a horse and a goat.

I have never believe them to be anything more than a romantic myth. But at that time I hadn't read about horses bred with zebras and that they had goat features too. I wonder if maybe, there was once a hybrid of a goat with a miniature horse? Maybe it would have had some of those features, including the horn.


That is a pretty good idea you have going on there. Its always nice to believe, who knows maybe they did evolve to what we now know as horses. Rhinos have horns too you know, makes you wonder....

Lmao now there's a thought! Horses mating with Rhinos-that would be quite the feat of gymnastics.

I think that unicorns were just a myth of the time of the Knights who supposedly did so much good.

You couldn't breed a horse and a goat together- they are too far appart evolutionarily. A horse is closer to rabbits and, yes, the rhinos. Goats are ruminants and there are big differences in digestion.

Just thinking about this...it's possible that LONG ago, there could have been some animal resembling a horse that had a horn or growth of some sort on it's forehead, used for foraging or something that it simply outgrew the use for and the growth eventually dissolved away as it's need did. Just as we have changed ourselves and so have many other animals as the needs of our bodies have? And some long ago artist drew that animal on a cave...lol. And the myth began! Just a thought?

As far as archaeologists are concerned, there have been no evidence that a horse with a horn exists. But the possibility of a unicorn be bred someday can be possible. Science is leaping forward in the future with all its experiments and there might come a news that they have bred a unicorn type of a horse. For what purpose, I have no idea.

Unicorns only look like a horse.

They have a head resembling that of a fine boned horse with one horn, cloven feet like that of a goat or deer and the tail of a lion. So they're not really horses in any way, they just look like them.

Wait a minute, where did you hear this? From all the myths I read, Unicorns were described as Horses with a horn which sometimes reflected like a prism.

Was I wrong?

Maybe the description just varies from story to story?

All of the illustrations that I have seen have always had the unicorn cloven hoofed. I haven't seen anything otherwise in truth so I always assumed this to be the case.

But then since they are mythical they could be decided to be anything really couldn't they!?

Well, I read an article on Unicorn's last night...and it turns out I was not entirely wrong. You see many tales of Unicorn's show them as having cloven hoofs, however more modern images of Unicorn's sometimes show them as merely being Horse's with a single horn.

So as a result, neither of us is entirely wrong.

There are no unicorns. Unicorns are made by the imagination of man. Where can we see them?

We always see them on stories of mythology. For example, Hercules, did you ever believe that Hercules does exist?

It is possible that someday, scientist would breed a horse that has a horn.

I seem to recall reading about a scientist that tried to 'create' a unicorn by transplanting the horn buds of baby goats to the centre of their heads.

I remember something along these lines myself. Apparently it is possible to transplant the horn buds to the centre of the forehead. The two horns grow together in a spiral. If there had been any evidence anywhere that a horse somewhere at sometime had horns I would believe that a unicorn at one time existed. Unfortunately there is no evidence. It's still a mythical magical creature we can love anyway.

I dont't know that anyone of us can say definitively that unicorns never or couldn't have existed. I think that evidence abounds that there have been, and are, some mighty strange creatures on planet Earth - and that's just the little corner of the universe that we know so far. We may never know...

Unicorn is mentioned in the bible, I think 9 times! However, it's not in reference to a horse with a horn but to a rhino. It is nice to think of this mystical creature having been real but it's probably just a myth.

Really Katie? Can you please provide Bible verses where I can see what it is you are talking about?

I have read a good amount of the Bible (am working on cover to cover) and have yet to see anything.

I got the info for my earlier post from the internet- I had read it somewhere but couldn't remember where. I didn't find nine places in the Bible but here is what I did find. Job 39:9-39:12, Deuteronomy 33:17, Isaiah 34:7, Numbers 23:22, Psalm 22:21, Psalm 29:6. I'm sorry, unicorn in the Bible is translated into wild ox not rhino. Some think the translation is a misprint, that it was actually meant to be rhino but who actually knows?