Add InterestThe death of the world's last male northern white rhino, Sudan, doesn't end efforts to save a subspecies of one of the world's most recognizable animals. The genetic material would have to be transferred to a lab in Italy that he said was the only place where embryos of northern white rhinos can be created. Creating embryos has been tried only on southern white rhinos and it isn't guaranteed the procedure will work on northern white rhinos, Stejskal added. If the procedure is eventually successful, scientists will use southern white rhinos in Kenya and in European zoos as surrogate mothers. Roughly 20,000 southern white rhinos remain in Africa.

Source: ABC News March 20, 2018 06:21 UTC