rhinoceros
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In U.S. television, there’s a tendency to open every piece of sports programming with a clash of cymbals and a rhinoceros jumping through a flaming hoop.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026
“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
The research also introduces a revised rhinoceros family tree and suggests that this Arctic species reached North America via a land bridge.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 24, 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
Thickwrin- kled like a sudden rhinoceros in a frilly apron.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
Elephants and rhinoceroses lived alongside bison, aurochs, horses, and deer.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 12, 2026
The southern white rhinoceroses, which is currently the most abundant rhinoceros species in the world, had been culled down to a population of merely 50 to 200 individuals in the early 20th century.
From Salon ● Apr. 16, 2024
Yes, Neandertal women were spearing woolly rhinoceroses, and Neandertal men were making clothing.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 17, 2023
Titanotheres belong in the order Perissodactyla, along with rhinoceroses, tapirs and horses.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 15, 2023
As time passed, the bands spread far and wide, pursuing mammoths, mastodons, rhinoceroses and reindeer.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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