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World’s first IVF rhino pregnancy ‘could save species’ | BBC News


A fertility breakthrough has offered hope for saving the northern white rhino from extinction – there are only two of the animals left on the planet.

Scientists have achieved the world’s first IVF rhino pregnancy, successfully transferring a lab-created rhino embryo into a surrogate mother.

The procedure was carried out with southern white rhinos, a closely related sub-species of northern whites.

The next step is to repeat this with northern white embryos.

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