A study published at the time suggested woolly rhinos were driven to extinction by a combination ... The mummified animal ...

Richard Vigne, the managing director of Ol Pejeta, said efforts to revive the dying species were crucial to highlighting the "current crisis of extinction ... subspecies of white rhino although some ...

The modern world is witnessing what scientists grimly call the sixth mass extinction - but unlike the ... the fate of rhinos - the western black rhino has already been declared extinct, while ...

Current trends suggest we’re now in another extinction crisis, although it’s unclear if whether that amounts to a sixth mass extinction. The Ordovician-Silurian mass extinction event may have wiped ...

The current period of extinction is known as the Holocene extinction event, sometimes referred to as the sixth extinction, as there have been five distinctive periods of mass extinction previously.

The black rhino once roamed most of sub-Saharan Africa, but today is on the verge of extinction due to poaching fueled by commercial demand for its horn.

The world has known 11 subspecies of rhino. The western black rhino was declared extinct in 2011. Another, the northern white rhino, was down to just six specimens before one of the last two males ...