While nearly 100 known rhinoceros species have existed throughout the eons, there are currently five species of living rhinos. Two rhino species can be found in Africa and three species can be found ...

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 ...

The female calf was born on Jan. 6 to first-time mom Maruška New year, new arrival! An endangered Indian rhinoceros was born earlier this month at Poland's Wroclaw Zoo. "The little one was born on ...

INDIANAPOLIS — The Indianapolis Zoo welcomed a new member to its family on Super Bowl Sunday. In a press release, the Indianapolis Zoo announced a white rhino calf was born at 9:13 a.m. Feb. 11 to ...

Zoo Atlanta didn't get a hippopotamus for Christmas — but another large mammal had a baby, just in time for the holiday. Zoo staff welcomed an adorable baby rhino on Christmas Eve. The southern white ...

A southern white rhinoceros was born earlier this month at the Virginia Zoo. The female southern white rhinoceros, whose name has not yet been released, was born Nov. 9 and is the second rhinoceros ...

The white rhinoceros is classified as “near threatened,” according to the World Wide Fund for Nature, a wilderness preservation organization. Manny Crisostomo Sacramento Bee file Sacramento residents ...

Sporting a horn on your head two-thirds the length of your body might seem like a drag. For the rhinoceros beetle, though, massive head-weapons are no big deal. Turns out, pitchfork-shaped protrusions ...

Genetic analysis of the remnants of 14 woolly rhinos shows that a warming climate, not hunting, probably killed them off 14,000 years ago. The numbers of woolly rhinos remained constant until close to ...

Dürer's woodcut print of a rhinoceros is as iconic as it is inaccurate. In this article we explore the legacy of this artwork and how it shaped public perception for more than 200 years after its ...