The woolly rhino, Coelodonta antiquitatis, would have been an impressive sight to the ancient people who painted images of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists have successfully sequenced the genome of the long-extinct woolly rhinoceros from an unusual place: the stomach ...

Frozen wolf pup stomach tissue produced a complete woolly rhino genome, implying stable genetics right before extinction hit ...

Despite education about rhinos, they continue to be hunted around the world for one simple reason: their horns. With just ...

The Sumatran rhino looks like it wandered out of another era and somehow got lost in the present day. Smaller than its ...

Rhino fossils found in China have revealed that the newly-discovered species Paraceratherium lixiaense, or Linxia Giant Rhino, was one of the largest mammals to ever live on Earth. This rhino species ...

The work marks the first time an Ice Age animal’s complete genome has been recovered from tissue preserved inside another ancient animal.

A recent study has reclassified the species commonly known as the Javan rhinoceros, proposing a more precise scientific name: Eurhinoceros sondaicus. The research highlights key differences in body ...

Researchers from the Center for Paleogenetics have managed to analyze the genome from a 14,400-year-old woolly rhinoceros, recovered from a tissue sample found preserved inside the stomach of an ...

The findings, published in the journal Genome Biology and Evolution, show that woolly rhinos remained "genetically healthy" ...

Rhinos are under threat in South Africa due to poaching. To learn more including how to support the rhinos, click here. Conservationists in South Africa are on a mission to save rhinos. The Care for ...

Museum scientists have identified and described an extinct rhinoceros species from Canada’s High Arctic. Researchers at the ...