Well its like a unicorn its a rhino that has a flat horn. The animal galloped like a horse but it was also like a rhino.
Its head a horse shaped but its horn is like a rhino, it has fur like a horse.

If you like to know more search the name on wikipedia for more info.

Legends of this might come from stone-age men and then to med-evil times.

I just looked up a picture of them on wiki. Man those things are fugly! With how they looked it's wierd that our myths of unicorns are all pretty and dainty and graceful and not freakishly huge monsters that will impale you, lol.

havent seen anythin else with a horn on its forhead unless its a dinosaur.

unicorn ?? but they not so pretty.. more like unicorn with steroid.

They were basically the extinct Wooly Rhino with a different horn.

Nothing like a "Unicorn".

Ancient man probably saw an albino version of these creatures, and since it was so rare it evolved into the mythical creature it is today.

"Me so horny"

Sorry, I can't help but think of that picture above.
Anyway, this elasmotherium actually belongs to the ungulates, and perhaps an ancestor of the modern day rhinos.

Some have argued that the survival of Elasmotherium into historical times may be the source of the unicorn myth,, as the Wiki says... but they must have had some imagination to turn such a butt-ugly thing as that into the romantic, graceful unicorn, with its fondness for virgins, etc, mustn't they? I think I'd sooner believe that unicorns do exist, rather than believe that one of those could have been the inspiration behind it. Like how they try to say that maybe dugongs were the origin of myths about mermaids ...

I'm just amazed that a creature could actually hold it's head upright and WALK with something that looks like Mt. Freakin Everest attached to it.

Ah but was it not just compressed hair, Onyx? Hair's not that heavy... until you get it wet. That I do know, I used to have the real headbanger long locks!

Almost right, RKD. It's the same stuff your hair and fingernalis are made of.

our ancestor need glasses, how can Elasmotherium look like unicorn ? and dugong look like mermaid ?

You seem unaware of the fact that the graceful "unicorn" is a rather recent invention and does not represent the actual myths. In fact the horse-like unicorn with a narwhal "horn" did not appear until sometime during the middle ages; prior to that legend often spoke of quite sturdy creatures, not at all unlike rhinos. >.>

I could really make a perverted joke, but I'm to tired. I never knew that the dainty unicorn type wasn't until later, everything I've ever looked up on them they were dainty or you know what I mean. Man I'm addicted to that word apparently.

Possible I guess, man would at some point have encountered this beastie. There is one on the Prehistoric Park series, I forget which episode, quite a good rendition for scale and a possible interpretation.

Funny enough, I guess there is a vaugue possibility, Elasmotherium's description looks similar to the Persian karkadann unicorn, and the Chinese zhi unicorn

this animal was alive when the 1st man appered and proberlly drawed an inacurate image of it.

Ok, maybe feeling sick is getting to me quite a bit or I must be some kind of r******ed....I had forgotten that the chinese even had any unicorn myths.

Apparently they were really agressive, that makes sense, lol.

Actually, I think their definition of beauty greatly differs frm ours....I mean, have you seen pics/potraits of women frm the olden days? They freakin look like dugongs, man!

I think the Elasmotherium is rather jazzy, my ownself. Second only to Baluchitherium on my scale of prehistoric mammal awesomeness. And early man probably tangled with one or two, fer sure.

I don't want to sound gay or anything, but I think unicorns are pretty kick-ass.

unicorn is not gay.. just sissy i prefer pegasus

Very cool Baluchitherium rendition in Walking with Beasts

My Fav is the Procoptodon goliath, or perhaps the Bullockornis "Deamon Duck of Doom" ROFL, love that name. I can't imagine how a 3 M Kangaroo would look. It creates an awesome mental image. I'd love to see a Walking With episode on Australian Megafauna.

Bah, only the white horses.

Yeah, I got the video. Those OZ's megafauna was dang rock like Ayers'! Hey, as kenshinx suggested, I think our ancestor will never create both unicorn and mermaid, had they invented eye-glasses much much earlier instead of finding shade first then eye glasses! Hahaha!

Weird... But awesome!!! ^^

I prefer the western medieval view of unicorns - far prettier

Never seen that critter before. I don't think, however, I'd want one in my private zoo.

Interesting, Ive seen stuff about this creature before like someone else said much like the woolly mammoth of rhinos. I know though a lot of what possibly created the mythical creature the unicorn came from ancient Egyptian times where they would put horses in the tombs of the deceased pharaohs with an added man made horn on its head aswell as sculptures of the same things.
Medieval times also had Armour on their war horses with an added metal spike placed on the head.
Pretty cool creature though (The rhino one)

I did also find this comment on a site
"The fifteenth and sixteenth centuries brought European travelers having returned from Asia, Africa, and the Americas, with new reports of unicorn sightings. Since descriptions where varied, it was assumed unicorns had a number of breeds"
Which makes you think they may have confused antelope, bison and other related species of a unicorn looking at the areas they reported having seen these sightings.