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
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
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
The contented rhinoceros is no less content for being among the last of its kind.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
Fossil evidence also revealed that these warm-adapted hippos lived alongside cold-climate animals such as mammoths and woolly rhinoceroses -- an unusual ecological mix that highlights the complexity of Ice Age environments.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2025
The animals said to have been featured in various Roman spectacles include hippopotamuses, elephants, rhinoceroses, bears, ostriches and big cats like lions and tigers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2024
Dr. Aryn P. Wilder — a conservation scientist at the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance — decided to study genetic samples from 12 northern white rhinoceroses that had cytogenetically frozen at the San Diego Zoo.
From Salon ● Apr. 16, 2024
Yes, Neandertal women were spearing woolly rhinoceroses, and Neandertal men were making clothing.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 17, 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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