While the northern white rhino (Ceratotherium simum cottoni) females are infertile, it’s hoped a surrogate such as the closely related southern white rhino (C. simum simum) could step in to ...

Colossal's proven de-extinction platform provides unprecedented opportunities to save this critically endangered subspecies ...

There are only two northern white rhinos left on the planet, but the species may be able to recover from the brink of extinction using frozen skin cells from deceased rhinos.. Much of the hope for ...

In the face of what seems like overwhelming odds, scientists are still trying everything they can to keep the northern white rhino alive. The methods being employed, however, are controversial ...

To test this method for northern white rhinos, Katsuhiko Hayashi at Osaka University in Japan and his colleagues first bathed skin cells from a female northern white rhino who died in 2015, called ...

Silverio, a 12-day-old white rhino, runs next to his mother during his first public appearance at the Buin Zoo in Santiago, Chile, on Tuesday.

White rhinos face many threats, including poaching for their horns, loss of habitat, and climate change. There are two subspecies of white rhinos: the northern and southern white rhinos.

The northern white rhino’s descent towards extinction is a heartbreaking tale of human impact. Decades ago, vast herds wandered across Central and East Africa, grazing peacefully.

Hannah, a 13-year-old white rhinoceros, has given hope to a Chilean zoo and conservationists worldwide, delivering a newborn calf in a rare zoo birth for the almost endangered species.

The number of white rhinos increased from 15,942 in 2022 to 17,464 in 2023, but numbers of the black and greater one-horned rhino stayed the same, according to the report published by the ...

Silverio, a twelve-day-old white rhino, runs next to his mother Hannah during his presentation at the Buin Zoo in Santiago, Chile, Tuesday, July 2, 2024. The baby rhino’s birth is the third of ...

The number of rhinos is slightly up but poaching has increased too With all five subspecies combined, there are just under 28,000 rhinos left in the world, from 500,000 at the beginning of the ...