New hope for white rhino, world’s most endangered mammal

Thursday, November 8, 2018 - 09:40 in Biology & Nature

  E-MAIL New genetic analysis of white rhino populations suggests it could be possible to rescue the critically endangered northern white rhinoceros from extinction, using the genes of its less threatened southern cousin. Analysing genetic samples from 232 rhinos, researchers from Cardiff University and the University of Venda found that despite the northern and southern populations […]

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