Despite education about rhinos, they continue to be hunted around the world for one simple reason: their horns. With just ...
The Sumatran rhino looks like it wandered out of another era and somehow got lost in the present day. Smaller than its ...
The work marks the first time an Ice Age animal’s complete genome has been recovered from tissue preserved inside another ...
A 14,400-year-old wolf puppy’s last meal is shedding light on the last days of one of the Ice Age’s most iconic megafauna ...
The woolly rhino, Coelodonta antiquitatis, would have been an impressive sight to the ancient people who painted images of ...
Rhino fossils found in China have revealed that the newly-discovered species Paraceratherium lixiaense, or Linxia Giant Rhino, was one of the largest mammals to ever live on Earth. This rhino species ...
The findings, published in the journal Genome Biology and Evolution, show that woolly rhinos remained "genetically healthy" ...
Museum scientists have identified and described an extinct rhinoceros species from Canada’s High Arctic. Researchers at the ...
In a Kenyan wildlife conservancy near the equator, armed guards protect two northern white rhinoceroses, Najin and Fatu. They are the last two northern white rhinos alive—both non-reproductive females ...
Rhinos are constantly threatened by poachers. The first healthy baby female white rhino was born in Zinave National Park in Mozambique a few weeks ago, the product of a multi-year targeted relocation ...
Sudan, the last male northern white rhino, feeds himself inside an enclosure at Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Nanyuki, Kenya, on April 18, 2015. Sudan has died. (Sun Ruibo/Xinhua/Sipa USA/TNS) JOHANNESBURG ...
More than 14,000 years ago, a wolf pup ate a piece of woolly rhino. Scientists have analyzed the rhino's DNA to figure out ...