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
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
With coarse fur, a stocky body, and a pair of daggers sticking out of its face, the woolly rhinoceros proved a formidable beast for millions of years as it roamed northern Eurasia.
From Science Magazine • Jun. 2, 2024
If goats could be brought to live amicably with rhinoceros, why not orangutans with hyenas?
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
