This topic is one of the whipping boys of the skeptics of scripture. You don't have to look far to hear some self conceited sophist mocking the bibles reference to unicorns as evidence that the bible is full of mythology and fables. They go on and on (bloviate) about how horses don't have a single horn from any fossil record or hard evidence and therefore God didn't write the bible and probably doesn't exist.
They won't allow the bible to describe this animal itself- see here:
https://www.biblegateway.com/quicksearch/?search=unicorn&version=KJV&searchtype=all&resultspp=500
This sounds like the creature the bible may be referring to:
Elasmotherium
https://www.bing.com/search?q=Elasmotherium&form=LENDF8&pc=LEN2&src=IE-SearchBox;
Now scientists are finding that this animal lived with humans-
'Siberian unicorn' walked Earth with humans
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-46358789
https://www.bing.com/news/search?q=Siberian+unicorn&FORM=HDRSC6
Maybe we should assume the bible is true and people are in error when they dismiss it (Rom.3:4).
This gentleman covers many of the same things here which are helpful related to the old dictionary definition of the words unicorn and rhinoceros:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BNsjsbJLaM&feature=youtu.be
(Except for attributing a translation error in the KJV due to his interpretation of Dt.33:17 trying to match it to a single two horned rhinoceros. In other words one animal with 2 horns (one horn greater than the other) where the KJV translators have two animals (one greater than the other) each with 1 great horn. Both translations make sense, but I believe the KJV more consistently connects this passage with the rest of the occurrences of 'unicorn'.)
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