Scientists have created two embryos of the nearly extinct northern white rhino, part of an effort to pull the species back from the brink.
"Today we achieved an important milestone on a rocky road which allows us to plan the future steps in the rescue program of the northern white rhino,'' said Thomas Hildebrandt of the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research in Germany.
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