22 September marks World Rhino Day 2014, the fourth year the event has taken place following its launch by the WWF to raise awareness of the problems facing the species.This year's theme is Five Rhino ...

As sad as it is to acknowledge, there are more than a million animal species on the brink of extinction today, and things are only going to get worse. That means that even with intense efforts to save ...

Northern white rhinoceroses were feared extinct in the wild in 2008. In 2018, the last male northern white rhinoceros died at a conservancy project in Kenya. The only two that remain are a mother and ...

Researchers in Kenya successfully transplanted a white rhino embryo into a female surrogate for the first time. The pregnant mother-to-be died from an unrelated illness before she could give birth, ...

As humans continue to encroach on our planet, we are driving a mass extinction that some experts call a "biological holocaust." Since more and more species are dying, it creates an increasing number ...

A rhinoceros was successfully impregnated through embryo transfer, marking the first successful use of the method. The pregnancy was discovered after the surrogate mother's death due to a bacterial ...

There are two known Northern white rhinoceroses left in the world, but scientists say a breakthrough with invitro fertilization - and a surrogate Southern white rhinoceros - could create a path to ...

The two loneliest rhinos in the world are the female known as Najin and her daughter, known as Fatu. They live in the Ol Pejeta conservancy, a 360 sq km (140 sq mi.) sanctuary in central Kenya. A lot ...

Jan Stejskal had just landed in Nairobi, Kenya, when he received the shocking news. Curra, the rhinoceros he was arriving to check up on, was dead. Heavy rains had flooded the animal’s enclosure at ...

A new medical breakthrough with embryo transfer offers hope for Africa’s northern white rhinos—there are only two left. This 70-day-old male southern white rhino fetus was the result of the first ...