Sentences with phrase «rhino from»

Saldaha Bay is the most prolific source of fossils thus far uncovered anywhere in Africa — bones speak of another world in which there were both fresh water animals and land animals like giant otters, giant pandas, short - necked giraffes and sabre - toothed cats, a rhino from which the white rhino is descended and the «true elephant», an ancestor of the woolly mammoth.

It's hard to imagine anyone battling a charging rhino from the seat of the 2006 Range Rover Sport, but with 390 horsepower you can, at least, leave the rhino in the dust.

Or they shoot paralyzing darts at the rhinos from unmarked helicopters — then take the horns and leave the stunned animals to bleed to death.

Researchers from the Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden examined woolly rhino and modern rhino neck vertebrae from several European and American museum collections and noticed that the remains of woolly rhinos from the North Sea often possess a «cervical» (neck) rib — in contrast to modern rhinos.

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It's founding purpose was to save a population of southern white rhinos from extinction.

But while they have no doubt saved some rhinos from that sad fate, clearly a method to slow today's momentum towards extinction has yet to be found.

«These measures must be strengthened now, specifically managing habitats in order to improve performance, preventing other rhinos from fading into extinction,» Stuart added.

Since 2000, China has reportedly purchased 141 rare white rhinos from South Africa — an amount that has drawn the suspicion from conservationists that the animals aren't being used for friendly purposes.

Something must be done to help protect rhinos from poachers.

Not exact matches

Instead of tracking the animals, The Rhino Rescue Project wants to discourage poachers from killing them by injecting dye and possibly even poison into the rhino's horns.

Here are two more pictures, most probably taken from the cargo door of a C - 2 Greyhound, showing the «Rhinos» (nickname for the Super Hornet used on U.S. supercarriers) over or near USS Stennis.

Six critically endangered black rhinos are being transported from South Africa to Chad, restoring the species to the country in north - central Africa nearly half a century after it was wiped out there.

Next day we paid a call on Kenya's surviving white rhinos, which had been imported from Natal and are so docile tourists can pet them.

Heavy rain kept us from penetrating deep into the surrounding Lorogi Forest, so we had no chance to check for signs of rhino or elephant.

On African safari with his son in 1950 he bagged an agglomeration of big game ranging from an oryx to a rhino.

About 30 yards from this we found the rhino, very dead.

After following a fresh rhino track some 20 minutes through moderately heavy bush, we finally caught sight of a huge, dark head projecting from behind a tree.

The rhino veered sharply from me and galloped in a cloud of dust out of sight.

Several of the project's units are directly across from Rochester Rhinos Stadium and it was recently named a finalist by The Community Design Center Rochester for the 2016 Robert Macon Award for Urban Innovation.

Although rhinoceroses are endangered, legalizing the trade in rhino horns may be the best way to protect them from poachers.

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Legalising the trade in rhino horn from South Africa could match black market supply and maybe even double it, with the aim of driving poachers out of business

For example, just in South Africa, rhino poaching incidents skyrocketed over 9,000 percent, from 13 in 2007 to 1,215 in 2014.

«But it's widely accepted that what became the African savannah fauna — giraffes, antelopes, rhinos — those species lived in the southern Balkans and migrated from there into Africa.»

If the extinction trend continues apace, modern elephants, rhinos, giraffes, hippos, bison, tigers and many more large mammals will soon disappear as well, as the primary threats from humans have expanded from overhunting, poaching or other types of killing to include indirect processes such as habitat loss and fragmentation.

Iconic animals including tigers, rhino and elephants are being supplied by organised crime to satisfy demand from Asia for dubious medicines based on animal parts.

October 19: A 1515 woodcut of a rhino and Robert Hooke's 1667 illustration of a flea star in «Natural Histories,» an exhibit of images from rare books in New York's American Museum of Natural History Library.

In April, masked men stole four rhino heads from Ireland's national museum.

The increased supply from legal trade would likely bring prices down, reducing the incentive for poachers to continue slaughtering rhinos.

They're doing it by comparing the DNA profiles of items confiscated from suspects — like a horn or a smear of blood — to a database that contains DNA profiles for thousands of rhino carcasses identified as the victims of poaching.

The world's last male northern white rhino is suffering from what may be a fatal infection — but that doesn't necessarily mean the end of his kind, Associated Press reports.

The Kruger operation will see around 500 rhinos captured and hopefully sold to mostly private buyers - a massive logistical operation involving darting the animals from helicopters.

«The woolly rhino bones were all dredged from the North Sea and river deltas in the Netherlands.

The rhinos, especially, are at risk from poachers who see vast fortunes in the animals» horns.

Scientists examined neck bones from 32 woolly rhinos and found indented spots on five of them where ribs had once attached...

Pitulko's team found 383 stone artefacts in the area, as well as many bones from ice - age Siberian animals including mammoths, reindeer, woolly rhino and bison.

The teeth, buried at the fossil site that houses the earliest hominin remains outside Africa (above), came from extinct horses, rhinos, and deer.

In 2009, for instance, builders erecting a seawall in Santa Cruz, California, uncovered three whales, two porpoises, and other marine life from 12 million to 15 million years ago, while a recent expansion of the Caldecott Tunnel near Berkeley, California, yielded extinct camels, rhinos, and giant wolverines.

THREE days after World Wildlife Day, poachers broke into a French zoo not far from Paris, made their way to an enclosure that housed a white rhino called Vince, shot him three times in the head and used a chainsaw to detach his horn.

More than 1,000 rhinos were poached for their horns in South Africa in 2013, a record number and an increase of over 50 percent from the previous year, the country's department of environmental affairs said on Friday.

The genet might be using this rhino as a movable hunting blind, waiting for mice or insects to run out of the way of the big lumbering beast and then pouncing on them from above.

In total, there were 30 horns from aurochs and bison as well as red deer antlers, and a rhino skull nearby.

The study, co-authored by scientists from San Diego Zoo Global and Mars Hill University, evaluated fertility issues in captive - born southern white rhinos and determined that diets including soy and alfalfa were likely contributors to breeding challenges.

Fossil evidence suggests that some woolly rhinos may have been at a high risk for sprouting bizarre ribs from their necks before going extinct, a potential result of inbreeding, Susan Milius reported in «Woolly rhinos may have grown strange extra ribs before going extinct» (SN: 9/30/17, p. 10).

The 301 species in the most danger from hunting include more than 60 % of all land mammal species weighing more than 1000 kilograms, such as rhinos and hippos.

A rhino's backside is pretty big, even from 50 feet, which is why I did not understand the camera crew's reaction to my shot.

Cracking down on this has been difficult, with the illegal trade driven principally by the false belief that rhino horn can cure ailments from kidney stones to cancer.

In it are fibroblasts from Tam and Gelogob, a blind and elderly female rhino in captivity at the Tabin Wildlife Reserve.

Pursuing another strategy, scientists at San Diego Zoo in California last year showed that banked tissue from the almost extinct northern white rhino (Ceratotherium simum cottoni) could be induced to form a line of pluripotent stem cells, capable of forming many tissues.