rhinoceros

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Researchers from the Canadian Museum of Nature have identified a previously unknown species of extinct rhinoceros from the High Arctic.

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

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

Now though I had great admiration for Peak, I had never thought of a rhinoceros as a light bulb.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel