GAUHATI, India Villagers on India's border with Myanmar have sighted the rare two-horned Sumatran rhinoceros, a species once believed to have become extinct in the Indian subcontinent early this century, a wildlife conservationist said. Recent sightings in the far eastern Indian states of Manipur and Nagaland suggest the hairy Sumatran rhinoceros are surviving on the subcontinent, said Anwaruddin Choudhury, chief executive of the Rhino Foundation. The estimated Sumatran rhino population in the world is about 230 to 400.

More than 50 percent are found in Indonesia. (AP)