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Africa-Press – Cameroun. <\/strong><\/span>Les licornes sont partout. Elles ont envahi les univers fictionnels de nos enfants et les rayons des magasins de jouets. Elles ornent tasses, t-shirts et maillots de bain comme une mode qui n’en finirait jamais, et l’on peut d\u00e9sormais entendre le mot \u00ablicorne\u00bb employ\u00e9 \u00e0 toutes les sauces, pour d\u00e9signer un certain profil de partenaire sentimental ou encore les start-up valant plus d’un milliard de dollars.<\/b><\/p>\n

Jusqu’ici, la licorne \u00e9tait l’animal f\u00e9erique auquel on avait envie de croire, une cr\u00e9ature tellement fantasm\u00e9e qu’elle \u00e9tait g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement associ\u00e9e aux arcs-en-ciel et aux paillettes. Une pure invention strictement impossible \u00e0 imaginer dans un monde habit\u00e9 par les humains.<\/p>\n

C’\u00e9tait sans compter sur la science, dont les r\u00e9centes avanc\u00e9es nous apprennent que les licornes ont r\u00e9ellement exist\u00e9 \u2013et qu’elles ont m\u00eame pu croiser les premiers humains.<\/p>\n

On connaissait l’existence de la licorne sib\u00e9rienne, \u00abElasmotherium sibiricum\u00bb en latin, animal de la famille des rhinoc\u00e9rotid\u00e9s, qui ressemble effectivement \u00e0 un rhinoc\u00e9ros dot\u00e9 d’une unique corne sur le haut du cr\u00e2ne.<\/p>\n

Moins gracieuse que les licornes des l\u00e9gendes, la version sib\u00e9rienne \u00e9tait environ deux fois plus massive qu’un rhinoc\u00e9ros actuel, pesant entre 4 et 5 tonnes. On en a retrouv\u00e9 des traces aussi bien au Kazakhstan que dans le sud-est de la Russie, en passant par la Sib\u00e9rie et l’Ukraine.<\/p>\n

Des licornes chez les N\u00e9andertal<\/b><\/p>\n

R\u00e9cemment, relate Discover Magazine, on pensait encore que l’Elamostherium sibiricum s’\u00e9tait \u00e9teint 350.000 ans avant notre \u00e8re. Ce chiffre a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9cemment ramen\u00e9 \u00e0 35.000 ans, gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 une datation au carbone effectu\u00e9e sur vingt-trois fossiles.<\/p>\n

Or, l’Homme de N\u00e9andertal serait apparu il y a environ 300.000 ans, ce qui signifie que certains de nos anc\u00eatres ont \u00e9t\u00e9 les contemporains des derni\u00e8res licornes sib\u00e9riennes.<\/p>\n

On ignore en revanche ce qui a caus\u00e9 l’extinction de l’esp\u00e8ce. \u00c0 ce jour, on peut imaginer que les humains aient chass\u00e9 les licornes sib\u00e9riennes jusqu’\u00e0 ce qu’elles soient ray\u00e9es de la surface du globe.<\/p>\n

Mais la cause de la disparition de la licorne sib\u00e9rienne est probablement due aux changements climatiques: les hivers les plus rigoureux auront pu priver cet animal de sa seule et unique nourriture, l’herbe.<\/p>\n

Il ne faudrait d’ailleurs pas parler d’extinction, mais de pseudo-extinction, l’esp\u00e8ce ayant disparu non sans avoir laiss\u00e9 place sur Terre \u00e0 une esp\u00e8ce-fille, le rhinoc\u00e9ros que nous connaissons aujourd’hui.<\/p>\n

Sur le plan g\u00e9n\u00e9tique, les deux esp\u00e8ces se seraient s\u00e9par\u00e9es il y a 43 \u00e0 47 millions d’ann\u00e9es. Les rhinoc\u00e9ros pourraient h\u00e9las finir par rejoindre leurs cousins licornes dans la liste des animaux ayant disparu de la surface de la plan\u00e8te: au moins quatre des cinq esp\u00e8ces qui existent actuellement est en effet consid\u00e9r\u00e9e comme menac\u00e9e.<\/p>\n

Pour plus d’informations et d’analyses sur la Cameroun<\/a>, suivez Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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