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

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

Most scientists believed the woolly rhinoceros succumbed to a warming climate at the end of the Pleistocene era about 12,000 years ago.

From Science Magazine • Jun. 2, 2024

The southern white rhinoceroses, which is currently the most abundant rhinoceros species in the world, had been culled down to a population of merely 50 to 200 individuals in the early 20th century.

From Salon • Apr. 16, 2024

He also took a large hide of rhinoceros, some raw meat, and a strong rope.

From "When the Sea Turned to Silver" by Grace Lin