Scientists create embryos to save northern white rhino

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Scientists working to bring back the functionally extinct northern white rhino announced they had successfully created three additional embryos of the subspecies, bringing the total to 12.a rhinoceros walking in an open field: Fatu, right, and her mother Najin are the only two remaining northern white rhinos© TONY KARUMBAFatu, right, and her mother Najin are the only two remaining northern white rhinos

One of world’s two remaining live specimens — female Fatu who lives with her mother Najin on Kenya’s 90,000-acre Ol Pejeta wildlife conservancy — provided the eggs for the project, while the sperm used was from two different deceased males.https://www.dianomi.com/smartads.epl?id=3533

Scientific consortium Biorescue described in a press release late Thursday how the eggs were collected from Fatu in early July before being airlifted to a lab in Italy for fertilisation, development and preservation.

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