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CNN) — A world first in rhinoceros reproductive health could save northern white rhinos from extinction, scientists said Wednesday. The team at the BioRescue project successfully impregnated a southern white rhino via in vitro fertilization (IVF), according to a press release, creating a possible path for restoring the northern white rhino species. Northern white rhinos are critically endangered and the only two remaining rhinos, Najin and Fatu, are infertile females that live under constant surveillance in Kenya

A white rhino calf was born at the Toronto Zoo this week. Zoo officials say a rhino named Sabi gave birth to a healthy calf just before 8 a.m. on Thursday. … White rhinos in the wild are listed as “near threatened” on the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List of Threatened Species.

He was only two days old when he was abandoned by his herd. Charlie the baby hippo was premature, weak, stressed and traumatised when he was rescued by workers from Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife in KwaZulu-Natal. But what a difference a few years and some TLC can make – Charlie (6) is healthy as a horse and will soon be released into the wild. But boy, did he have plenty obstacles standing in his way. For the first few years of his life, Charlie believed he was a rhinoceros because he was raised with rhinos in a rhino orphanage. But to...

Immense challenges face law enforcement authorities amid continued demand for rhino horns, says WWF-Singapore’s Uma Sachidhanandam.It was sobering when I first heard of Singapore’s largest seizure of rhino horns last month - weighing in at about 34kg with an estimated price tag of S$1.2 million. The rhino horns were found in the transit baggage of a passenger travelling from South Africa to the Lao People's Democratic Republic through Singapore. It was also a reminder of another case two years earlier, where a South African man was sentenced to 17 months’ jail for trying to smuggle about 22kg of white rhino...

POACHERS have killed a black rhino in Matobo district in Matabeleland South, police said. A carcass of a black rhino with its horns missing was found in the Makhothama Resettlement area which borders the Matopo National Park on February 7. “The carcass was scanned with a metal detector leading to the recovery of two wildlife sensors and a bullet in the animal’s forehead,” national police spokesman assistant commissioner Paul Nyathi said. The rhino horn is one of the most expensive commodities in the world by weight, fetching tens of thousands of dollars per kilogramme. Demand is mainly from Asia where...

They are the second-largest land mammal and an endangered species with a near-threatened status. To save white rhinos from extinction, a zoo in Taiwan is preparing to send a young female southern white rhinoceros, called Emma, to Japan where they hope she will breed. "We currently count only around 18,000 of the white rhinoceros species in the world right now, they are on the edge of being extinct," said Tony Liang, Leofoo Village, Manager of Central Recreation and Entertainment.

A 45-year-old man was jailed for 17 months on Wednesday (April 8) after he was caught smuggling 22kg of white rhinoceros horns worth an estimated US$563,000 (S$804,000) at Singapore’s Changi Airport without a permit. In a statement issued after the sentence was handed down, the National Parks Board said the penalty was "the heaviest sentence meted out for the smuggling of wildlife parts in Singapore" to date. The court heard that the horns had been removed from at least five adult white rhinoceros — a species that is threatened with extinction according to an international convention — the court heard....

Don't let their bright eyes, lolling tongues or doggy grins fool you -- Rhino, Rambo and Der aren't your average pups. The four-year-old Belgian Malinoises are retired mine detection dogs who have spent much of their lives working to clear explosives in Syria. Now they're back in the United States, working to transition to civilian life in the hopes of finding new homes. The work of mine detection dogs like Rhino, Rambo and Der have played "a critical role" in helping the recovery of areas liberated from ISIS, Jerry Guilbert, the chief of programs for the Office of Weapons Removal...

Rhino Hide is a completely new category of product made from a two-part composite-reinforced liquid and filled with a special aggregate. The blend is poured into small holes at the top of any standard wall. Once the wall is filled, the liquid chemically cures in a few hours to a hard plastic consistency. The formulated composite in this new product makes the walls or structures they are filled with impervious to projectiles from small arms fire or projectiles from extreme weather such as hurricanes or tornadoes.

For a long time it was believed that a giant rhinoceros called Elasmotherium sibericum went extinct around 200,000 years ago — well before the Quaternary megafaunal extinction event, which saw the end of the woolly mammoth, Irish elk and saber-toothed cat. Now improved dating of fossils suggests that the species survived in Eastern Europe and Central Asia until at least 39,000 years ago, overlapping in time with the existence of early modern humans. Today there are just five surviving rhinoceros species, although in the past there have been as many as 250 species at different times.Weighing up to 3.5 tons, Elasmotherium...

REFUGIO — Joe Braman’s life changed forever last February as he stood in front of a large, gray and magnificent creature in South Africa. The rhino, with its two horns at the front of its head and large sturdy body, almost looks like a creature from the distant past. But what Braman saw in front of him was an animal on the brink of becoming a part of history. The rhino he saw no longer had its trademark horns and was left barely breathing in the wild. “Since then, there’s not a day that I don’t wake up thinking about...

At least three suspected rhino poachers have been killed by a pride of lions after they broke into a game reserve in South Africa. Rangers discovered human remains around 4:30 p.m. local time on July 3 in the immediate vicinity of the lions’ territory at the Sibuya Game Reserve in Kenton-on-Sea in the Eastern Cape, more than 24 hours after an anti-poaching dog alerted her handler that something was amiss. The ranger however did not examine the disturbance further because it was not unusual to hear the lions at night. When members of the anti-poaching unit investigated, they recovered human...

About 709,000 years ago, someone butchered a rhinoceros using stone tools on the Philippine island of Luzon. That may not seem remarkable -- except that humans weren't supposed to be in the Philippines so long ago. Before this discovery, the earliest indicator that early humans, or hominins, were even on those islands had been a single foot bone from 67,000 years ago, uncovered in the Callao Cave on Luzon. That's quite a time jump. Research says that the new findings push back the date for humans inhabiting the Philippines by hundreds of thousands of years. A study published Wednesday in...

Poachers have broken into a French zoo, killing a four-year-old white rhinoceros and sawing off its horn. Keepers found the dead animal, named Vince, in the African enclosure of the zoo at Thoiry, west of Paris, on Tuesday morning. It had been shot in the head and its large horn removed with a chainsaw. The poachers fled before they could remove the animal’s second horn, either because they were disturbed or because their equipment failed, police said. Authorities described the incident as the first of its kind in Europe. The poachers forced a grill at the rear entrance to the...

A visitor to a South African national park captured the moment a group of white rhinoceroses charged at the tour group, sending the visitors running for the bushes. The video, filmed Wednesday in Kruger National Park, shows the tour group and two rangers approaching a crash of white rhinos. The rhinos notice the tourists nearby and apparently feel threatened, leading them to charge toward the humans. A ranger can be hard shouting "Get in the bush," and the tourists comply, causing the rhinos to run right past them. "I could feel the ground moving like an earthquake, we jumped into...

In a last-gasp effort, researchers this week unveiled the details of an audacious plan to save the northern white rhino (Ceratotherium simum cottoni)

Gov. Charlie Baker won’t be attending the Republican National Convention in Ohio this July, breaking a string of Massachusetts governors with prominent speaking roles at the party’s convention. Baker, who was elected to office and has governed as a moderate Republican, has taken issue with the party’s leading presidential candidates this election cycle. He has criticized Donald Trump’s “reprehensible” comments about Muslims and women and said Trump and Sen. Ted Cruz have not shown an ability to collaborate with others. Other moderate Republicans, including New Hampshire Sen. Kelly Ayotte and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, have also said they do...

Marco Rubio did his part, although he should have done it two weeks ago when it might have given Ted Cruz a chance to take Florida’s 99 winner-take-all delegates. What’s done is done, though, and Rubio’s campaign is now as officially done as it already was practically done. The Catch 22 if you’re a Cruz supporter, of course (or simply a #NeverTrump bitter-ender), is that you needed John Kasich to win Ohio last night to deny Trump that state’s 66 delegates, but you also need Kasich to now do what he won’t do precisely because he won: Get out as...

The birth of a baby black rhino at Chester Zoo, in northern England, has been caught on camera.

A three-day-old rhino calf explored her East Asia habitat at the Safari Park in Escondido Friday. Kianga, a southern white rhino born on October 13, weighs approximately 100 pounds and is the second calf for parents Kacy and Maoto. According to keepers, Kacy isn’t letting two and a half-year-old brother, Kayode, Maoto or any other rhinos too near little Kianga just yet. “Kacy is a very attentive and protective mother,” stated Tina Hunter, senior keeper, San Diego Zoo Safari Park. “She is fairly tolerant of the other rhinos being curious about the baby, but she is definitely keeping them at...