In particular, Africa's “diverse ecological niches” sustain a huge variety of hoofed animals with many different horns, Bergin says. The dik-dik (above, an animal at the Kansas City Zoo ...

The radioactive horns are meant to protect the animals. Scientists from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, came up with a rather unusual idea to save local rhinos ...

This, in addition to their massive size, lethal set of horns, and absence of predators, makes them a wild species worthy of respect for their position in the animal world. Among the main African ...

South African scientists on Tuesday injected radioactive ... as he administered the radioisotopes on one of the large animals' horns. The radioactive material would "render the horn useless ...

South African scientists on Tuesday injected radioactive material ... chips in the horn” as he administered the radioisotopes on one of the large animals’ horns. The radioactive material would “render ...

Photo: Cebisile Mbonani/Bloomberg (Getty Images) Scientists in South Africa are ... other plants and animals, according to the university. Consuming products made from the horns will make them ...

South African scientists on Tuesday injected radioactive ... as he administered the radioisotopes on one of the large animals’ horns. The radioactive material would “render the horn useless ...