Successful IVF Breakthrough Could Save Northern White Rhino

A caretaker at Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya with Fatu, one of the only two remaining northern white rhinos, on March 20, 2018. Jan Husar / SOPA Images / LightRocket via Getty Images

In a major breakthrough, the first successful southern white rhino in vitro fertilization has been carried out by scientists. It could mean hope in the quest to save the northern white rhino, whose last remaining members — cousins of the southern rhino — are both female.

Neither of the two northern white rhinos, Najin and Fatu, are able to carry a pregnancy to term, AFP reported. They live under around-the-clock protection from poachers at the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya.

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