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Detailed explanation-1: -Kaziranga Gets Three Rhino Sculptures Made of Burnt Horns Ash. Three rhino sculptures have been unveiled in the premises of Kaziranga National Park in Assam. The group of three sculptures are called ‘Abode of Unicorns’ and it has a male rhino, a female, a calf and three forest guards.

Detailed explanation-2: -The memorial named ‘Abode of the Unicorns’, which took six months to complete, is at Mihimukh, the main entrance to the park in Kohora, one of the five ranges of the Eastern Assam Wildlife Division. Kohora is about 200 km east of Guwahati.

Detailed explanation-3: -Memorial made of ashes collected from rhino horns were unveiled recently at the Kaziranga National Park in Assam.

Detailed explanation-4: -Kaziranga National Park is a national park in the Golaghat and Nagaon districts of the state of Assam, India. The park, which hosts two-thirds of the world’s great one-horned rhinoceroses, is a World Heritage Site.

Detailed explanation-5: -A giant rhino that may have been the origin of the unicorn myth survived until at least 39,000 years ago - much longer than previously thought. Known as the Siberian unicorn, the animal had a long horn on its nose, and roamed the grasslands of Eurasia.