• FreeBeard@slrpnk.net
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    1 month ago

    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.

      • egrets@lemmy.world
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        1 month ago

        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.