Rhino Resource Center

Welcome to the world's largest online rhinoceros library dedicated to assisting research and conservation efforts globally.

Rhinos have been roaming the Earth for over 50 million years, making them one of the oldest living mammal species. Their ancestors once resembled large tapirs and evolved into the massive creatures we see today.

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2022 Sotheby A rare small bronze figure of a rhinoceros, Tang dynasty

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The Rhino Image Library

The Rhino Image Library provides 7557 rhino related images.

Sauraha – rhino in street

Berger Nile rhino

Berger black rhino

Berger hunting in Kenya

Berger in Kenya

Berger 3 rhinos

Berger at Guaso Njiro

In Afrikas Wildkammern 1910

Herbert Lang with Nile rhinoceros

Nuremberg Airport

Edinburgh Museum 2001 sondaicus

National Museums Scotland 1902 sumatrensis

Mouhot 1863 Tour du Monde

Mouhot 1864 Chief attack

KLoes Ex Libris

Wambolt Toreador

Orosz ship with ganda

Orosz Ganda ship

Kowalczyk Big flood

Zomb Yoga

LoFaro Rhinoceros

Ionesco Gloire aux Rhinos

Speke 2 kinds of rhino

Kisese Tanzania rock art

Tanzania Kisese petroglyph

Monson 2018 Nurnberg

powell cotton 1907 rhino head

Powell Cotton 1907 nile rhino

Matthes 1895 Indian rhino

Matthes 1895 Black rhino

Togo 2014 stamp

Viera 1955 Kilimandscharo

Tiedemann 1892 hunting

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The Rhino Document Library

The Rhino Document Library contains a total of 30053 references.

Marom, N.; Lazagabaster, I.A.; Shafir, R.; Natalio, F.; Eisenmann, V.; Horwitz, L.K. 2022. The Late Middle Pleistocene mammalian fauna of Oumm Qatafa Cave, Judean Desert: taxonomy, taphonomy and palaeoenvironment. Journal of Quaternary Science 37 (4): 612-638. doi.org/10.1002/jqs.341

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Ma, Jiao; Wang Yuan; Baryshnikov, G.F.; Drucker, D.G.; MacGrath, K.; Zhang Hanwen; Bocherens, H.; Hu Yaowu 2021. The Mammuthus-Coelodonta Faunal Complex at its southeastern limit: A biogeochemical paleoecology investigation in Northeast Asia. Quaternary International 591: 93-106. doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2020.12.024

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Handa, N.; Nishioka, Y.; Duangkrayom, J.; Jintasakul, P. 2021. Brachypotherium perimense (Perissodactyla, Rhinocerotidae) from the Miocene of Nakhon Ratchasima, Northeastern Thailand, with comments on fossil records of Brachypotherium. Historical Biology 33 (9): 1642-1660. doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2020.1723578

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Auguste, P.; Seveque, N.; Louguet, S. 2022. La mésofaune et macrofaune mammalienne de Waziers (Nord), le Bas-Terroir (campagnes 2014-2015). Données paléontologiques. Quaternaire 33 (4): 311-322.

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Chitoglou, K.; Pandolfi, L.; Kostopoulos, D.S. 2023. First occurrence of Pliorhinus cf. megarhinus (Perrissodactyla, Rhinocerotidae) in Greece. Bulletin Geological Society of Greece 60: 1-13. http://dx.doi.org/10.12681/ bgsg.33711

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Hanon, R.; Patou-Mathis, M.; Pean, S.; Prat, S. 2019. Paleobiodiversity and large mammal associations during the Late Pliocene and the Early Pleistocene in South Africa: implications for hominin palaeoecology. Quaternaire 30 (3): 243-256. doi.org/10.4000/quaternaire.12131

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Kampouridis, P.; Hartung, J.; Boehme, M. 2022. Large mammals from the late Middle Miocene of Markt Rettenbach (Bavaria, Germany). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 304 (3): 299-312. doi.org/10.1127/njgpa/2022/1072

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Laurillard, C.L.; Lartet, E. 1848. Rhinocéros fossiles. Mamm.foss.. In: Orbigny, C. de, Dictionnaire universel d'histoire naturelle, vol. 11. Paris. pp. 99-102.

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Boitard, P. 1848. Rhinocéros. Rhinoceros Linn. Mamm.. In: Orbigny, C. de, Dictionnaire universel d'histoire naturelle, vol. 11. Paris. pp. 91-99.

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Kapur, V.V.; Pickford, M.; Chauhan, G.; Thakkar, M.G. 2021. A Middle Miocene (~14 Ma) vertebrate assemblage from Palasava, Rapar Taluka, Kutch (Kachchh) District, Gujarat State, western India. Historical Biology 33 (5): 595-615. doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2019.1648451

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Konidaris, G.E.; Aytek, A.I.; Kostopoulos, D.S.; Yavuz, A.Y.; et al. 2026. Kayaca, a new vertebrate locality from the Upper Miocene of Türkiye and its importance for the Turolian biogeography of the eastern peri-Mediterranean region. Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 106: 211-227. doi.org/10.1007/s12549-025-00666-1

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Pickford, M.; Senut, B.; Gommery, D.; Kipkech, J. 2022. New Pliocene hominid fossils from Baringo County, Kenya. Fossil Imprint 78 (2): 451-488. doi.org/10.37520/fi.2022.020

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Pokines, J.T.; Lister, A.M.; Ames, C.J.H.; Nowell, A.; Cordova, C.E. 2018. Faunal remains from recent excavations at Shishan Marsh 1 (SM1), a Late Lower Paleolithic open-air site in the Azraq Basin, Jordan. Quaternary Research 2018: 1-24. doi.org/10.1017/qua.2018.113

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Rosas, A.; Galli, E.; Fidalgo, D.; Garcia-Tabernero, A.; Huguet, R.; et al. 2022. The Quibas site (Murcia, Spain): New herbivores from the Early-Middle Pleistocene transition. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 128 (3): 745-772.

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Hennin, J. de 1681. De zinrijke gedachten toegepast op de vijf Sinnen van ‘s menschen verstand. Verhaalende veele wonderbaare geschiedenissen, die ons verstand te vooren komen, historiaal en leerlijk. Amsterdam, Jan Claesen ten Hoorn.

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Black Rhino

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Greater One-horned Rhino

Javan Rhino

Sumatran Rhino

Fossil Rhino

Rhino collections

Carino Database

East Asian and West African Rhinos.

Galleria of Emilio Gargioni

Rhino Depictions In Contemporary Modern Art.

Geraads Fossil Rhino Database

Old World Neogene and Quaternary rhino-bearing localities.

History of Clara

Clara the Rhinoceros tells the marvellous story of the most famous rhinoceros in history.

RRC Newsletters

All newsletters from the start in 2005 were edited and composed by Dr. Kees Rookmaaker, Editor of the Rhino Resource Center.

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The Rhinoceros of South Asia – DISCOUNT

A book by Kees Rookmaaker with chapters by Joachim K. Bautze and Kelly Enright.

Rhinos have complex social lives

Far from being solitary brutes, rhinos display surprising social intelligence. They communicate through an elaborate system of scent marks, vocalisations, and shared middens (dung piles) that serve as community message boards.

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Black Rhino

Southern White Rhino

Nile Rhino

Greater One-horned Rhino

Javan Rhino

Sumatran Rhino

Fossil Rhino

Rhino Resource Center

Rhinos are ancient survivors

The Rhino Image Library

The Rhino Document Library

Black Rhino

Southern White Rhino

Nile Rhino

Greater One-horned Rhino

Javan Rhino

Sumatran Rhino

Fossil Rhino

Rhinos have complex social lives