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.

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 ...

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 ...

What’s Going On in The Video? The video begins with the rhino mother pooping near a watering hole and an elephant charging at her. You might think the rhino just needed to poop, but there is more to ...

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 ...

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 ...