In April 2015, users of social media sites lamented news that the western black rhino had been officially declared extinct. The photograph shown above was appended to many posts about that species ...

Yesterday the International Union for Conservation of Nature declared Africa's Western Black Rhino officially extinct, largely the result of illegal poaching for their horns. But the Black Rhino ...

In the case of these rhino, reproductive variance increased extinction risk by as much as 70% when combined with poaching. Within black rhino populations (and most likely in most animals), some ...

the Western black rhino (Diceros bicornis ssp. longipes), was recognized by the IUCN as extinct in 2011. The species was once widespread in central Africa, but the population started on a steep ...

Declared extinct in 2006, the West African black rhinoceros was once a majestic creature roaming the savannas of Africa. Despite extensive conservation efforts, the species couldn't recover from ...

which stands precariously on the brink of extinction. Black rhinoceros, Masia Mara National Reserve, Kenya (Getty Images/Mike Hill) Next is the black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis), famous for its ...

Until now a tricky proposition giving the rhinoceros is two tongue size ... genetic technology in an attempt to reintroduce or de extinct the dodo bird, the dodo was first seen around 1600 ...

Africa’s western black rhino is now officially extinct according the latest review of animals and plants by the world’s largest conservation network. The subspecies of the black rhino ...

The Western black rhinoceros has officially been declared extinct by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the world’s largest conservation network. A subspecies of the ...