Genetic study shows white rhinos intermixed during ice age offering hope for saving sub-species

Wednesday, November 7, 2018 - 08:42 in Biology & Nature

An international team of researchers has found genetic evidence of northern and southern white rhinoceros' intermingling during the last ice age. In their paper published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, the group describes their study and their hopes that the new information may lead to a new population of hybrids.

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