Researchers have discovered that a variety of animals, from spotted deer to rhesus monkeys and peafowl, are attracted to and consume rhino excrement in Nepal’s Chitwan and Shuklaphanta national parks.

Natalie, a southern white rhino who recently died, was part of the crash that participated in the collaborative poop study with N.C. State and the NC Zoo. It’s feeding time at the rhino habitat at the ...

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 southern white rhinoceros stands in a field at the North Carolina Zoo. Christina Burnham In 2020, graduate student Christina Burnham was seeking a master’s thesis project focused on southern white ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 2020, graduate student Christina Burnham was seeking a master’s thesis project focused on southern white rhinos. Her original plan had been to study the blood biochemistry of wild southern white ...