In 1979, the black-footed ferret was believed to be extinct. More than four decades later, scientists in the US have not only ...

Today, after numerous reintroductions, there are thought to be roughly 350 black-footed ferrets living in the wild, and these animals are suffering from low genetic diversity, disease, habitat ...

Virginia is home to the world's first black-footed ferrets born to a cloned endangered animal, according to The National Zoo.

SUMMERS: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently announced that Antonia, a cloned black-footed ferret, had given birth to ...

These births are being viewed as an opportunity to restore needed genetic diversity into the species. Black-footed ferrets ...

Wildlife conservationists are celebrating a big milestone reached by a little black-footed ferret and her offspring, born at ...

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

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

Black-footed ferrets, also known as American polecats, are carnivorous relatives of weasels with dark patches around their ...

Black-footed ferrets are one of the most endangered mammals in North America with an estimated 370 in the wild, according to the World Wildlife Fund. The numbers reached levels so low that by the ...

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