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

A rhinoceros is so massive that if it falls asleep on its legs, blood flow could be cut off, leading to circulatory problems and significant injury.

From Salon • Jun. 16, 2025

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

What he had seen was the perfectly preserved skull of a young rhinoceros, which had been washed out by recent heavy rains.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson