In early July, the ephemeral promise of a new life blinked into existence. Not in the usual way, but on a clear microscope slide in a sterile lab in Cremona, Italy, thousands of miles from the creature’s ancestral territory in sub-Saharan Africa. Shortly after, lab technicians plunged it into liquid nitrogen, freezing the creature’s development … Continue reading Creation of three new northern white rhinos embryos may indicate hope for other rhino species