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rhinoceros

[rahy-nos-er-uhs] / raɪˈnɒs ər əs /




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“It’s also given me the skin of a rhinoceros, which comes in handy when you’re the CEO of Apple,” he wrote in the essay.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2026

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

It was the ninth Banksy to appear in as many days in London and follows images of a goat, elephants, monkeys, a wolf, pelicans, a cat, piranhas and a rhinoceros.

From BBC • Aug. 18, 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

This time, the flare in our faces could have stopped a rhinoceros in its tracks.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly




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