Royal Burgers’ Zoo in Arnhem announced happy news that a healthy looking, square lipped rhinoceros was born in the early hours of Tuesday morning, October 26. The latest addition to the zoo was born in a heated enclosure on Tuesday, 26 October, the zoo said. The experienced mother has birthed a total of eight calves, […]
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World’s Largest Rhino Species Ever Found in Chinese Animal Graveyard
China continues to be a land of mystique and wonder, with many facets of its culture and society yet to be fully understood. But it is also a country known for amazing dinosaur fossils and the latest find is extraordinary! At a prehistoric animal graveyard in Gansu, northwestern China, an enormous ancestor to the modern-day […]
Best Preserved Ice Age Woolly Rhino Discovered in Siberia
In 2011 the BBC reported on the discovery of the “oldest known” woolly rhino fossil that was found on the cold Tibetan plateau in the Himalayas. That creature was dated to an astonishing “3.6 million years ago” and researchers determined it was well adapted to the cold thanks to its thick, shaggy fur, short ears and […]
Chicago Releasing Recordings From 100 Ongoing Police Violence Investigations
Print Friendly Above Photo: AP Local governments and police departments are known to be worse than shady about making records of police violence public, but releasing an overwhelming amount of information all at once can also be an obfuscating tactic. According to a memo obtained by the Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago’s Independent Police Review Authority plans to release recordings that document […]
Over 50 detained, possible explosive found in illegal prayer hall in southern Russia
A prayer hall which had not been registered with any official religious body was discovered in the suburbs of Samara, a source in law enforcement confirmed to RT on Friday. FSB busts ISIS-linked cell with explosives planning terror attack in southern Russia The hall was a place for Salafis to gather, according to an RT […]
Portugal nabs two Australians for rhino horn trafficking
(AFP) – 9 hours ago LISBON — Portuguese police have arrested an Australian and his son attempting to smuggle six rhino horns worth nearly half a million dollars out of the country, police said Monday. The 63-year-old and his 31-year-old son were detained at Lisbon airport as they were about to board a flight to […]