Could lab-grown rhino horns actually stop poaching? We may never know When a group of startups set out to solve an age-old problem with new technology, they met unexpected resistance from ...

Humans have hunted them for centuries, seeing a surge in hunting during European colonization, ... Due to their value, studying real rhino horns require strict security protocols.

DARIAN WOODS, BYLINE: The top markets for real rhino horn are in China and Vietnam. Some buyers use the horns as sculpting material to make art. Others grind up the horn and consume it, believing ...

A member of the Rhisotope Project drills a hole to insert a radioactive pellet into the horn of a rhinoceros at a rhino orphanage in Mokopane, Limpopo district, South Africa on June 25, 2024.

History of rhino images illustrates changing human-rhino relations and horn size A joint analysis of artwork and photographs reveals how human attitudes towards rhinos have changed over time (from ...

His research suggests that engineered horns could be a powerful tool in conservation even if they led to some increase in the demand for the real thing. "You can't just say, 'Oh, it could lead to ...