The rhinoceros has also been hunted and poached nearly to extinction, and several species remain critically endangered today.

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: A team of researchers dug into a permafrost-encased Siberian wolf’s stomach to get DNA details of a now-extinct woolly rhinoceros. For the first time ...

Decoded genome of meat in pup’s stomach helps scientists build picture of what caused extinction of species Researchers have shed light on the final centuries of the woolly rhinoceros after studying a ...

The work marks the first time an Ice Age animal’s complete genome has been recovered from tissue preserved inside another ancient animal. The woolly rhinoceros, illustrated above, is an extinct ...

Roughly 14,400 years ago in what is now Russia, a wolf pup feasted on the meat of a woolly rhinoceros (Coelodonta antiquitatis) that probably belonged to one of the last populations of the species. A ...

A fearless muntjac deer weighing just 50 pounds went head-to-head with a nearly two-ton rhinoceros at a zoo in Poland in a caught-on-camera David and Goliath bout for the ages. A caretaker at Wroclaw ...

A 13-kilogram deer was caught on video engaging in an unusual confrontation with a 1.7-tonne rhinoceros at Wroclaw Zoo in Poland on Friday 9 January, captivating internet users around the world. The ...

The Milwaukee County Zoo completed the transformation of its homes for big African animals by opening a new rhino and hippo facility with a ribbon-cutting event Dec. 9. The new Ladish Co. Foundation ...

Uganda’s efforts to reintroduce and conserve rhinos reached a new milestone on Monday, with the symbolic naming of 17 juvenile southern white rhinos at Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary. The ceremony, which ...

DINOKENG GAME RESERVE, South Africa (AP) — The Dinokeng Game Reserve in South Africa has a thriving rhino population, but their exact numbers and the details of the security operation that keeps them ...

Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. For millennia, the rhinoceros stood as one of Earth’s great ...

World Rhino Day on 22nd September of each year is a global event dedicated to the mission of raising awareness of the urgent necessity to preserve the rhinos and the threats that these giants are ...