Five hundred years ago in 1516, the first rhinoceros seen in Europe since the days of the Roman Empire drowned off the coast of Italy in a shipwreck. The Indian rhinoceros had been a gift to King ...

Small, hairy and cheekily charismatic. Those words sprang to mind when I first met a Sumatran rhinoceros (Dicerorhinus ...

Black rhinos boast two horns, the foremost more prominent than the other. Rhino horns grow as much as three inches a year, and have been known to grow up to five feet long. Females use their horns to ...

A new study revealed significant differences in the appearance and behavior of the two one-horned Asiatic rhinoceros species, challenging long-standing classifications and supporting a re-evaluation ...

For over two centuries, Europeans pictured the rhinoceros as more of a battering ram than an animal. The misconceptions are somewhat understandable, since there were no living rhinos around, and the ...

A southern white rhinoceros was born earlier this month at the Virginia Zoo. The female southern white rhinoceros, whose name has not yet been released, was born Nov. 9 and is the second rhinoceros ...

Miners accidentally uncovered a mummified wooly rhinoceros and a preserved horn at a dig site in Russia. Under special conditions, permafrost mummifies plant and animal remains through a process ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A rhinoceros who spent four decades at the Louisville Zoo died Wednesday, zoo officials announced in a news release. The southern ...

A recent study has reclassified the species commonly known as the Javan rhinoceros, proposing a more precise scientific name: Eurhinoceros sondaicus. The research highlights key differences in body ...