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​This week, a group of researchers announced that they may have discovered how to save the Northern white rhino from extinction. Pictured here are Najin and her daughter Fatu.

Najin (L) and Fatu, the only two remaining female northern white rhinos graze in their paddock on March 20, 2018 at the ol-Pejeta conservancy in Nanyuki, north of capital Nairobi.

Photo by TONY KARUMBA/AFP via Getty Images.

How IVF Could Be the Key to Saving a Rhino Species From Extinction

A team of international scientists in Kenya spent the last ten years researching how to save the world’s last two northern white rhinos – the answer might be in vitro fertilization across subspecies.