UNICORNS COLORNG BOOK

Throughout the more than 2,000 years of its history, the unicom has remained one of the most elusive of creatures. Although colorful and intriguing tales of unicorns abound in all comers of the world, the one constant found in all depictions, pictorial or written, is the single horn protruding from the forehead of this magnificent beast.

The first "real" unicorn was probably the Monoclonius, a herbivorous dinosaur that roamed North America about 120 million years ago. Resembling the rhinoceros, the Monoclonius wields a short and stout nasal horn.

Accounts of battles between unicorns and elephants may have been inspired by another real unicorn, the prehistoric mammal known as Elasmotherium, found in Europe, Russia, and Asia in the late Pleistocene period. This enormous beast was roughly the same size as the elephant, with an impressive horn extending up to six and one-half feet long.