Wuwei, Gansu
In prehistoric times, China was home to the gigantic one-horned "Elasmotherium", which survived until the late Pleistocene, becoming extinct as late as about 20,000 years ago. It has been speculated that the Chinese "unicorn", known as the "qilin" or "zhi" is a cultural memory of the "Elasmotherium". A wooden sculpture of a charging bull-like creature with a huge single horn, similar to modern reconstructions of the "Elasmotherium", was discovered in a late Western Han (206 BC – AD 9) tomb at Wuwei, Gansu in 1959.