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rhinoceros

[rahy-nos-er-uhs] / raɪˈnɒs ər əs /




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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

Johan Marais spots a rhinoceros from a helicopter and shoots it with a tranquilizer dart.

From Salon • Jun. 16, 2025

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

Researchers have discovered sustained hunting by humans prevented the woolly rhinoceros from accessing favourable habitats as Earth warmed following the Last Ice Age.

From Science Daily • Jun. 4, 2024

Maybe it wasn’t a rhinoceros, but a bunch of old trees that were ready to tell the secrets of the dead.

From "Hello, Universe" by Erin Entrada Kelly




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