Horns posts
Daily Mail A heartbreaking task...but necessary after poachers kill animals for their horns.
108 months ago
io9 The new normal?
108 months ago
TIME The man says the horns are part of his religious attire.
111 months ago
MSN News After giving at least 35 examples of covers that resulted in horns of some sort, the magazine assured its readers, “Any resemblance to cats, bats or devil horns is entirely coincidental.”
111 months ago
Fox News Vietnamese authorities destroyed more than 2,200 kilograms (nearly 5,000 pounds) of seized elephant ivory and rhino horns on Saturday.
112 months ago
MSN News Africa’s wild rhinos are in danger of going extinct within the next two decades if demand for their horns keeps up.
113 months ago
National Geographic Channel Weird Animal Question of the Week: “What are some different types of horns?”
115 months ago
National Geographic Some animals’ horns carry useful information—like rings that reveal their ages. From the jackrabbit-size dik-dik to the giant eland, learn about the world’s horned animals.
Bizarre Horns of the Animal Kingdom
news.nationalgeographic.com
Horns evolved in many animals to be used as weapons, and then as defenses against rivals. See photos of awesome animal headgear.
116 months ago
TechCrunch The future is of biotech is wild!
Biotech Startup Pembient Is Making Actual Rhino Horns, Sans Rhino
tcrn.ch
There's a startup called Pembient that is 3D printing rhinoceros horns in a lab on the far edge of San Francisco. These are not horns that look like rhino horns. These are actual, genetically verifiable rhino horns. They just don't need a rhino in or
Read more ... der to make them. That's good news for the very few rhinoceroses around the world. There are only 5 white rhinos left and the black rhinoceros is now officially extinct. The black rhino was thought to be extinct in 2006, but scientists have recently confirmed it.You see poachers have been killing off these big, beautiful free-roaming mammals, nearly wiping them off the face of the planet forever, just to rip out their horns. The horns are used as daggers in Yemen, and, it is believed in traditional Chinese medicine, that the rhino horn has healing powers. Pembient co-founder Matthew Markus, a software engineer by trade, has worked on various startups since the late 90's, but he really didn't like ...
131 months ago
HuffPost Live
132 months ago
More Horns posts »