NCERT criticized for misidentifying African rhino as Indian in class 4 textbook, sparking outrage and ridicule.

GUWAHATI: The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has drawn flak by wrongly depicting the Indian rhinoceros in the Class 4 maths textb ...

The NCERT class 4 maths textbook has a section filled with errors and people are pointing it out. A small box of rhinoceroses ...

Since the 1920s, people have been finding fossils near Verdigre Creek in northeast Nebraska. However, it wasn’t until 50 ...

Volcanic eruption from 12 million years ago preserves a snapshot of extinct animal life. Rhinos that once roamed much of ...

Even more remarkably, the rhino’s horn acts like a tailfin—a natural stabilizer that reduces spinning midair. “The great ...

Karimi Ngore, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons. The primary threats to the Sumatran rhino are poaching and habitat loss. Poachers target them for their horns, which are highly valued in traditional ...

who studied endangered Sumatran rhinos in Malaysia, said in the news release. The study was published in the Nature Journal Scientific Reports and was conducted at the University of Cincinnati. It was ...

We do not want them to end up like the Sumatran rhino, which went extinct in 2019 in Malaysia,” Ms Liew added. Meanwhile, SWD director Mohd Soffian Abu Bakar believes that a trend of ivory ...

“Since 2021, there have been no significant smuggling cases of elephant ivory or pangolin scales seized in Hong Kong, and there has been only one case involving 6.3kg [13.9lbs] of rhinoceros ...

And they likely starved to death." Rhino expert John Payne spent his career working with endangered Sumatran rhinos in Malaysia. Payne, who was not part of the study, said UC's research addresses ...

“There is convergence between the illegal trade in succulents and other commodities, including abalone, rhino horn, ivory, and reptiles,” the study notes. Men do most of the poaching but women ...