There are now nine eastern black rhinos living in the wild in the region. Wildlife researchers are celebrating the wild birth of a critically endangered eastern black rhino as a tiny subgroup in Kenya ...

Rhino poaching persists despite a slight decrease worldwide over the last three years, driven by relentless demand for their horns in East Asia, according to a recent report by TRAFFIC and the IUCN.

The international BioRescue consortium has entered new grounds in its mission to save the northern white rhinoceros (NWR, Ceratotherium simum cottoni) from extinction. Since the beginning of the year, ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. A new report by the IUCN finds that two of the world’s most endangered species are still perilously close to extinction. Javan rhino (Rhinoceros ...

The latest global rhino count from the International Rhino Foundation reveals a mixed picture for the world’s five rhino species. The number of critically endangered black rhinos has increased ...

"This could be the holy grail:" Watch the Rhisotope team prepare to inject a rhino's horn with radioactive material South African scientists have launched an anti-poaching campaign in which rhinos' ...

Researchers have described proteins that they say are among the most ancient ever sequenced. Two teams, which analysed molecules from extinct relatives of rhinos and other large mammals, have pushed ...

Rhino poaching may be substantially reduced by removing the reason so many rhinos are poached in the first place: their highly valued horns. Dehorning rhinos dramatically drops the poaching rate ...

Poaching rates dropped by more than half in African reserves where veterinarians removed the animals’ horns, which are in high demand in some parts of Asia. By Rachel Nuwer Wildlife managers in Africa ...

When it came to playing an iconic Spider-Man universe villain in the new Marvel movie Kraven the Hunter, Alessandro Nivola said he let the visual effects artists do all the heavy lifting. “The ...

It's named Sasha after the hunter who found it. Russian scientists aren't quite sure if their 10,000-year-old Sasha was male or female, but the name, they say, universally applies. That any of Sasha, ...

A baby southern white rhino, estimated to weigh less than 50kg, arrived this month at Whipsnade Zoo. Born to parents Fahari and Sizzle, the male calf joins his seven-month old half-brother Benja - who ...