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 ...

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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 ...

Fossilized poo never stops surprising. By analysing droppings from extinct hyenas, palaeontologists have reconstructed DNA from an ice-age woolly rhino 1. About the size of today’s white rhinos, the ...

A baby rhino left fighting for its life following a hyena attack in South Africa is now recovering thanks to a blanket made by a group of knitting grannies. The three-week-old rhino, named Hercules, ...

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 ...

The cave has been untouched for around 42,000 years. It also contained the bones and teeth of hyena pups, suggesting they raised their young there. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

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 ...