The three-week-old rhino, named Hercules, was savaged by a pack of hyenas in Mpumalanga and suffered fractures, crush injuries, and several infected wounds. But after being transported to a specialist ...

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 ...

A baby rhino in South Africa was attacked by hyenas after it laid down next to its dead mom's body. The mom had been killed by poachers, the Care for Wild sanctuary—which rehabilitates rhino ...

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 ...

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 ...

Many would agree that a mother’s love is one of the purest forms of love. A mother can go to any lengths to save or protect her child from any threats and keep them safe. And this is true for not just ...

Most mothers will go to any lengths to make sure their kids are kept safe from harm. But not all mum's are faced with the headache of protecting their offspring from a ravenous pack of hyenas. That ...

The bones were found during a construction project. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The bones of a woolly mammoth, woolly ...