While one of the offspring, referred to as kits, passed away shortly after birth, the two others, a male and a female, “are ...

Once believed to be extinct, wildlife biologists estimate there are 500 black-foot ferrets in the U.S. after decades of ...

For the first time, an endangered black-footed ferret named Antonia that was cloned from cryogenically-preserved tissue has ...

Scientists say the births of two ferrets are the first time a cloned endangered species has reproduced in a conservation ...

All other black-footed ferrets in the U.S. are descendants of just seven other animals, and Willa's biological samples contain "three times" the genetic diversity held in the black-footed ferret ...

The black-footed ferret program, run by the Fish and Wildlife Service, was the first time cloning was used as a conservation ...

Authorities indicated that techniques used in their work with black-footed ferrets could help preserve other endangered ...

Black-footed ferrets are one of the most endangered mammals in North America with only an estimated 370 in the wild, ...

black-footed ferret siblings at the Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute, are the first members of an endangered species born to a cloned animal. "It's almost unimaginable ...

F or the first time ever, two black-footed ferret kits have been born to a cloned endangered animal. The mother is a ferret ...