Mysteries

Mysteries

Thursday, January 19, 2017

17th Cenury Unicorn Hoax!
©2016 Lori L. Simpson

Otto von Guericke (1602-1686) German scientist, politician,scientist and inventor faked this unicorn skeleton in 1678. He used prehistoric animal bones of a wooly rhinoceros, a mammoth and the tusk of a narwhale.
The skeleton is near the entrance of the Zoo of Osmabrück, in Germany.
Photo found on Wikicommons.