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World's First Successful Rhino IVF Pregnancy Gives Northern White Rhinos New Hope

An international team of scientists has achieved the world’s first rhinoceros pregnancy following an embryo transfer. The BioRescue team took a southern white rhino embryo produced in vitro from collected egg cells and sperm and transferred into a southern white rhino surrogate mother at the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya on 24 September, 2023. The team have now confirmed a pregnancy of 70 days with a well-developed 6.4 cm long male embryo. The successful embryo transfer and pregnancy are a proof of concept and allow to now safely move to the transfer of northern white rhino embryos - a project vital to save the northern white rhino from extinction. There are only two members of the species left in the wild. Credit: Jan Zwilling/Steven Seet/Cover Images