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

A clone of the endangered black-footed ferret named Antonia has successfully given birth, marking a significant milestone in ...

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

In a "groundbreaking achievement," a clone of an endangered species of ferret has given birth to babies for the very first ...

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

Sibert and Red Cloud, black-footed ferret siblings at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute, are ...

An endangered animal that was created by cloning gave birth to two healthy offspring at a Smithsonian Institution/National Zoo center in Virginia, in what a federal agency called a conservation ...

Their decline was largely due to a combination of habitat loss, diseases including the sylvatic plague and a reduction in their primary food source: prairie dogs. These ferrets were once ...

After years of efforts, Colorado Parks and Wildlife confirmed that black-footed ferrets, an endangered species, has successfully bred at a reintroduction site in southeast Colorado.

She was the clone of another ferret named Willa, whose genetic material and tissue samples were collected in 1988. Her DNA ...