Researchers have discovered that a variety of animals, from spotted deer to rhesus monkeys and peafowl, are attracted to and consume rhino excrement in Nepal’s Chitwan and Shuklaphanta national parks.

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 ...

Adult Southern white rhinoceros poop up to 75 pounds daily, lead rhino caregiver Lori McNeal is responsible for the clean up. For more stories about people to be thankful for go here. The average ...

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 ...

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 ...

Scientists reconstructed the mitochondrial genome of a European Woolly Rhinoceros for the first time. Extracting DNA from fossilized hyena feces was critical to the process. Using the DNA, the team ...

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 ...