The rifle shot boomed through the darkening forest just as Damien Mander arrived ... His thoughts flew to Basta, a pregnant black rhinoceros, and her two-year-old calf. That afternoon one of ...

I was in Chitwan National Park, Nepal. Our guide had walked us to a quiet spot on the edge of a clearing, where we waited ...

A cruise ship traveling to Florida was caught in a freak storm last week that brought winds so powerful they tilted the ship ...

Authorities in Nepal say they’ll continue a translocation program to even out the distribution of rhinos in the popular ...

Asian rhinos are also threatened by habitat loss and the degradation of their forest, grassland and marshland habitat – mainly due to human settlements, logging and agriculture. They now survive ...

Mating is a challenge for Sumatran rhinos. The critically endangered animals live in four isolated regions scattered across 10,000 square miles of steep, dense forest, and males rarely venture far.

The Sumatran rhino is the smallest of the remaining rhino species, but it is critically endangered -- with 100 or fewer left in the wild today. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible ...

One person was injured in an attack by a rhinoceros while another in firing by forest guards who were trying to send back the animal towards the Kaziranga National Park on Saturday, an official said.