Friday, 22 December 2017

Sumatran rhinos never recovered from losses during the Pleistocene, genome evidence shows


Date:  December 14, 2017
Source:  Cell Press

Summary:
An international team of researchers has sequenced and analyzed the first Sumatran rhino genome from a sample belonging to a male made famous at the Cincinnati Zoo. This study shows that the trouble for Sumatran rhinoceros populations began a long time ago, around the middle of the Pleistocene, about one million years ago.


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