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Can this “frozen zoo” resurrect the Northern White Rhino?

A pack of dogs have been trained to protect South Africa’s wildlife, and have already saved 45 rhinos from: being poached.

Many breeds of dog from beagles to bloodhounds have – been used to protect the endangered species from poachers. The dogs begin training from birth and learn how to handle all – the pressures of real operations before beginning to work at 18 months old.

Remains of a wooly mammoth, a rhino, and a wolf unearthed on a building site

The Ice Age creature was discovered in the thawing permafrost in the Yakutia region in Russia’s extreme north in August. It is thought to be the best-preserved woolly rhino found there yet.

Rhinos: scientists are hanging them upside-down from helicopters

Interviews with those involved in captive breeding of the Sumatran Rhino.

COMING THIS WEEKEND: OTT#146: Northern White rhino; Introducing Elsie B-P; Introductionists; Whale Penis

Although believed to be functionally extinct, if new specimens are found the implications are enormous