Natalie, a southern white rhino who recently died, was part of the crash that participated in the collaborative poop study with N.C. State and the NC Zoo. It’s feeding time at the rhino habitat at the ...

The average adult Southern white rhinoceros produces about 50 pounds of poop each day, and there are two adult rhinos and one baby rhino currently residing at Safari West outside of Santa Rosa, which ...

The fascinating part of reconstructing a European woolly rhinoceros’s mitochondrial genome for the first time in history should be the fact that scientists have now ...

Fossilized feces from the Pleistocene epoch have divulged the mitochondrial DNA of a woolly rhinoceros, whose genome had never previously been assembled. The ancient poop was not excreted by an ...

A southern white rhinoceros stands in a field at the North Carolina Zoo. Christina Burnham In 2020, graduate student Christina Burnham was seeking a master’s thesis project focused on southern white ...

Maddy has a degree in biochemistry from the University of York and specializes in reporting on health, medicine, and genetics. Maddy has a degree in biochemistry from the University of York and ...

YULEE, Fla. — Stumped about what to give that special someone this Christmas? How about some rhino poop. The International Rhino Foundation is auctioning on eBay four pieces of dung from the ...

In 2020, graduate student Christina Burnham was seeking a master’s thesis project focused on southern white rhinos. Her original plan had been to study the blood biochemistry of wild southern white ...

When John Hammond cooked up the idea for Jurassic Park, he needed the skills of the world’s brightest geneticists and a little help from the fossil record. The earliest additions to the fledgling park ...