Unicorn
Commonly, a mythical beast resembling a white horse with a single horn grown out of its forehead.[1]
Unicorns in the Judeo-Christian Tradition
The word "unicorn" is included in the text of the King James translation of The Bible nine times.[2] Christian apologists have advanced various arguments that the biblical unicorn was not a fantasy animal. [3] In the original texts, unicorns go by the Hebrew name Re-em whereas the Greek Septuagint used the word monokeros, meaning "one-horned".[4] The English word "unicorn" is derived from the Latin, ūnicornis, also meaning "one-horned".
While popularly characterized as a horned member of the horse baramin, it is likely that the "unicorn" was actually quite un-horselike. One recognized theory is that "unicorn" actually refers to a rhinoceros, and a growing number of Creation researchers are theorizing that the unicorn was actually a member of the ceratopsian baramin.[4]
Artificial Unicorns
In 1984 the U.S. patent office granted patent number 4,429,685 to Timothy G. Zell for his development of a surgical procedure to create a "unicorn" from a horned animal[5]. The basis for the patent was "Lancelot the living unicorn" (actually a goat) bred by Timothy "Otter" Zell and his wife Morning Glory Zell[6].