rhinoceros
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Airport authorities and police seized six pieces of rhinoceros horn and around 12 kilograms of unidentified meat used to conceal them inside a polystyrene icebox.
From Barron's • Feb. 10, 2026
Neanderthals were expert hunters, bringing down large game such as wild horses, wooly rhinoceros, cave lions, and even mammoths using sharpened stone spears affixed to wooden shafts with adhesives like birch tar.
From Science Magazine • Nov. 22, 2024
His latest work follows images that have popped up each morning since 5 August across London of a goat, elephants, monkeys, a wolf, pelicans, a cat, piranhas and a rhinoceros.
From BBC • Aug. 13, 2024
An iconic species of megafauna, the woolly rhinoceros had thick skin and long fur, and it once roamed the mammoth step of northern and central Eurasia, before its extinction around 10,000 years ago.
From Science Daily • Jun. 4, 2024
He yelled at the top of his lungs, imagining himself as a fearsome rhinoceros, but with Ares and Mars screaming in his head, he couldn’t concentrate.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
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