The Sumatran rhino is uniquely adapted for life in dense rainforest. But these traits can’t protect it from habitat loss.

The Sumatran rhino is one of the most endangered species in the world. Global wildlife conservation authority IUCN recently estimated that only 34 to 47 of these rhinos still exist in the wild, and ...

Across the world, in an animal sanctuary on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, lives a horde of Sumatran rhinos. Ten strong, they represent an estimated one-tenth of what’s left of their species. Two ...

Poaching has decimated rhino populations across Africa, but a new study finds that dehorning the animals, or surgically removing their horns, drastically reduces poaching. The study focused on 11 ...

The work marks the first time an Ice Age animal’s complete genome has been recovered from tissue preserved inside another ...

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 number of critically endangered black rhinos has increased slightly, but there is bad news for other rhino species, according to a global count released Thursday by the International Rhino ...

For centuries, rhinoceroses roamed the plains and forests of Bangladesh. Now extinct locally, their absence exposes the fragility of ecosystems and the hidden cost of forgetting our wildlife ...