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Researchers in Kenya successfully transplanted a white rhino embryo into a female surrogate for the first time. The pregnant mother-to-be died from an unrelated illness before she could give birth, but the procedure showed that some of the world s rarest animals can still be saved.
In a major breakthrough, the first successful southern white rhino in vitro fertilization has been carried out by scientists. It could mean hope in the quest to save the northern white rhino, whose last remaining members cousins of the southern rhino are both female.
Scientists have carried out the first successful in vitro fertilisation of a southern white rhino, a major breakthrough that could pave the way to saving its highly endangered northern cousin.