Sumatran rhino 'hanging on by a thread'
BBC News - Fri 15 Dec 17A genetic study shows the decline of one of the rarest mammals on Earth began during the last Ice Age.
Sumatran rhinos never recovered from losses during the Pleistocene, genome evidence shows
Phys.org - Thu 14 Dec 17The Sumatran rhinoceros (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis) is one of the most threatened mammals on earth. By 2011, only about 200 of the rhinos were thought to remain living in the wild. Now, an international ...
The dice were stacked against rhino survival 12,000 years ago
Cosmos Magazine - Thu 14 Dec 17Genome analysis finds the world’s rarest rhino might have been doomed by ancient climate change. Jeff Glorfeld reports.
Malaysia’s last female Sumatran rhino falls ill
Mongabay.com - Sun 17 Dec 17Iman, the last female Sumatran rhino (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis) in the Malaysian state of Sabah, has fallen seriously ill over the past few days due to bleeding in her uterus, authorities there ...
Sumatran Rhinos Never Recovered from Losses During the Pleistocene
Laboratory Equipment - Thu 14 Dec 17NewsAn international team of researchers has sequenced and analyzed the first Sumatran rhino genome from a sample belonging to a male made famous at the Cincinnati Zoo. This study shows that ...
DNA analysis shows Sumatran rhinos peaked during last Ice Age, never recovered
Mongabay.com - Thu 14 Dec 17The critically endangered Sumatran rhino has been on an arc toward extinction for nearly 12,000 years now, according to a new study based on genome sequencing that also found the species’ ...