rhinoceros
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A 1990 Denver Business Journal profile noted she had killed a rhinoceros, a lion and a leopard in the preceding year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 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
Researchers from the Canadian Museum of Nature have identified a previously unknown species of extinct rhinoceros from the High Arctic.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 24, 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
Once his wife returned home to find a freshly deceased rhinoceros filling the front hallway.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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Rodents, rabbits, koalas, horses, rhinoceroses and elephants are all hind-gut fermenters – animals that have simple, single-chambered stomachs and rely on microbes in their intestines to extract nutrients from high-fiber food.
From Salon ● Dec. 30, 2024
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
Managers in national parks should begin planning adaptations to manage the increased temperatures in the hopes of preserving a future for the rhinoceroses.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 17, 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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