Despite education about rhinos, they continue to be hunted around the world for one simple reason: their horns. With just ...

The woolly rhino, Coelodonta antiquitatis, would have been an impressive sight to the ancient people who painted images of them on cave walls and carved figurines of them out of bone, antler, ivory ...

Paleontologists at the Canadian Museum of Nature have recently been studying the skeletal remains of a rhinoceros. This might ...

A new eastern black rhino has been born in the wild in Kenya The critically endangered rhino calf brings the small subpopulation in its region to nine, and there are an estimated 583 mature eastern ...

Imagine someone digs you up in 15,000 years and discovers what you had for lunch the day that you died. That’s more or less ...

Two subspecies of rhinoceros have been declared extinct this month, highlighting the problem of poachers who kill the beasts only for their horns. The West African black rhino was officially wiped out ...

Scientists have successfully sequenced the genome of the long-extinct woolly rhinoceros from an unusual place: the stomach contents of a naturally mummified Pleistocene wolf pup from Siberia. As its ...

Scientists prepared a high-quality sequence of the giant mammal’s genome based on a specimen preserved in Siberian permafrost. By Ari Daniel It’s not every day that one gets to hold a chunk of hide ...

DNA found inside an Ice Age wolf challenges what we thought about how woolly rhinos died out.

One of the last living northern white rhinos is recovering from a surgical procedure that her keepers hope will cure a chronic infection threatening the animal’s health. Nola is a 41-year-old ...

The new eastern black rhinoceros is believed to be about six months old Munib Chaudry/Getty; Big Life Foundation A new eastern black rhino has been born in the wild in Kenya The critically endangered ...