How One Dead Rhino Could Help Save Its Entire Species

How One Dead Rhino Could Help Save Its Entire Species

Four years after a southern white rhino named Maureen died at Whipsnade Zoo, scientists have brought part of her back to life—at least at the cellular level. Researchers at Nature’s SAFE, a UK-based conservation biobank, have successfully revived and grown living cells from a skin sample taken after Maureen’s death. The 40-year-old southern white rhino had lived at the zoo, and her ear tissue—stored in liquid nitrogen at -196°C—was preserved. In…