Latest Rhino Stories

By Tim Huber Privately held coal producer Rhino Resources Inc. is preparing to cash in on the booming market for energy stocks with a potential $180 million initial public offering. The small Lexington, Ky.-based mine operator plans to use almost all of its share of the proceeds - currently an estimated $85 million at $17 a share - to repay debt racked up buying mining complexes during the past five years, according to its latest prospectus filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission....

Music Video Games, LLC (MvG), an online, casual music video game company, today announced an agreement with Rhino Entertainment, a Warner Music Group Corp. company, under which Rhino will license original recordings from WMG's extensive library and will advise MvG on the selection of music and artists for use in MvG games. "We are excited to be working with Rhino on the selection of music for our games," said Vincent Bitetti, CEO of MvG. "This strategic agreement ensures that we will have the...

TouchTunes Corporation, the largest out-of-home interactive entertainment network, has added another exclusive pre-release to the company's growing catalog of digital music with "No End In Sight: The Very Best of Foreigner" from Rhino Records. Classic and beloved songs like "Juke Box Hero,""Cold As Ice," and "I Want To Know What Love Is" are included on the album, alongside the band's first new material in more than a decade, the new single "Too Late." The 32-song, two-disc set will be...

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) - Lulu, the first rhino to give birth to a calf conceived by artificial insemination, is pregnant again.The Budapest Zoo confirmed Monday that the 27-year-old rhino will give birth in late 2008.She already is mother to Layla, the world's first rhino calf born following artificial insemination with sperm from another rhino at the zoo, Easy Boy.This time, the zoo used sperm from Simba, 38, a rhino from Britain's Colchester Zoo.A rhino's gestation period is 16 to 17...

By Ed StoddardJOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - West Africa's version of the black rhino appears to be extinct, the World Conservation Union said on Friday.It said an intensive survey has failed to find any sign of the west African black rhino in its final refuge in northern Cameroon.On a more positive note, it said rhino numbers are on the rise elsewhere on the world's poorest continent after decades of rampant poaching and habitat loss."As a result (of this survey) this subspecies has been...