Rhinoceros
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![Researchers stand around a rhino](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/9XimEYJS8m8e2zzVo4EwPi-320-80.jpg)
1st-ever white rhino IVF sparks hope that 'doomed species' could still be saved, despite there being no males left
By Harry Baker published
Researchers in Kenya successfully transplanted a white rhino embryo into a female surrogate for the first time. The pregnant mother-to-be died from an unrelated illness before she could give birth, but the procedure showed that some of the world's rarest animals can still be saved.
![Najin the northern white rhino at Ol Pejeta Conservancy.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/qt784mvGuMLppiPMdcCwF4-320-80.jpg)
Embryos of Northern white rhino created. Will they save nearly extinct creature?
By Patrick Pester published
More northern white rhino embryos have been created in a lab in the race to save the subspecies from extinction. There are now five in total.
![White rhinos owe their name to the Afrikaan word ‘weit’, meaning wide, which refers to the animal's wide mouth.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/yHJHnp5nxsZSNTtyzwJfXK-320-80.jpg)
Only two northern white rhinos remain. And they're both female.
By Ruth Appeltant, Suzannah Williams published
Sadly, this success story only stretches as far as the southern subspecies of the white rhino.
![The ice age pup's well-preserved teeth are still sharp.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/45aGoCNY76e6fJnZDsJ5zP-320-80.jpg)
A pup preserved in permafrost ate one of the last woolly rhinos on Earth
By Laura Geggel published
Before it died in what is now Siberia, this ice age puppy ate a chunk of woolly rhino meat.
![The last of her species in Malaysia, Iman died six months after the death of the country's last male Sumatran rhino.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/5WXYDL88p5TVeXT8LKA2w3-320-80.jpg)
Malaysia Says Goodbye to Iman, Its last Sumatran Rhino
By Mindy Weisberger published
Once plentiful across Asia, Sumatran rhinos have steadily declined in recent decades.
![Scientists harvested eggs from the only two living northern white rhinos. Here, Najin recovers after her eggs are collected, while Fatu (Najin’s daughter) undergoes the same procedure in another enclosure.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/Sjv4dmwNAk8XPrVJ8rm5EY-320-80.jpg)
Lab-Made Embryos Could Save Northern White Rhinos After Last Male Dies
By Stephanie Pappas published
Two embryos have been created from the eggs of the last living northern white rhinoceroses.
![A female black rhinoceros about to be relocated from Nairobi National Park to Tsavo-East National Park in an effort to repopulate habitats around Kenya, on June 26, 2018.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/6hnM6wMsjRVwrAkukTBJhj-320-80.jpg)
Why 8 Endangered Rhinos Died in Mission to Save Them
By Laura Geggel published
A mission meant to save critically endangered rhinoceroses by transferring them to a wildlife sanctuary in Kenya has ended in tragedy. And now we know why.
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