Today, we’ll provide the answer to the question: are elephants ungulates? Ungulates are further subdivided into Perissodactyla and Artiodactyla, which means odd-toed and even-toed ungulates ...

Reference: “A taxonomic review of the genus Rhinoceros with emphasis on the distinction of Eurhinoceros (Perissodactyla, Rhinocerotidae)” by Francesco Nardelli and Kurt Heißig, 6 March 2025, ZooKeys.

A new study revealed significant differences in the appearance and behaviour of the two one-horned Asiatic rhinoceros species, challenging long-standing classifications and supporting a re ...

Edentata, Lagomorpha, Marsupialia, Perissodactyla, Primates, Rodentia) and deposited between 1916-1963 in the CHIOC were studied. New host records were established for 52 Parasite species distributed ...

Zebras belong to the family Equidae, characterised by having an odd number of toes, and are part of the order Perissodactyla, which also includes rhinoceroses and tapirs. Grevy’s zebras are the ...

There are now just two northern white rhinoceros remaining in the world. Najin and Fatu (both female) live under constant protection from poachers in Kenya’s Ol Pejeta Conservancy. Sudan (the last ...

A poaching case currently being heard in an Indonesian court has revealed that at least seven Javan rhinos were killed from 2019-2023 for their horns. The world’s sole remaining population of ...

The sole remaining population of Javan rhinos, around 70 individuals, persists in a single national park in Indonesia. A new paper argues that conservationists should clear some areas of the park ...

In addition to Rose, the authors of "Early Eocene Fossils Suggest That the Mammalian Order Perissodactyla Originated in India" include Luke Holbrook, Rajendra Rana, Kishor Kumar, Katrina Jones ...

1 Janecka Genomics Laboratory, Duquesne University, Bayer School of Natural and Environmental Sciences, Pittsburgh, PA, United States 2 Biotechnology Program, Duquesne University, Bayer School of ...

Therefore, we profiled the gut microbiome of Artiodactyla and Perissodactyla at high and low altitudes using 16S rRNA gene sequencing. According to cluster analyses, the gut microbiome compositions of ...