The students from Lamar Middle School were invited to release the creatures on a private landowner’s property as part of the ...

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 ...

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

In a "groundbreaking achievement," a clone of an endangered species of ferret has given birth to babies for the very first time. The mother, named Antonia, is a clone of another black-footed ...

In 1979, the black-footed ferret was believed to be extinct. More than four decades later, scientists in the US have not only cloned the species from the last wild survivors, but one of those clones ...

An endangered animal that was created by cloning gave birth to two healthy offspring at a Smithsonian Institution/National ...

A cloned black-footed ferret successfully gave birth — marking the first time a U.S. clone of an endangered species produced offspring, and an opportunity to rebuild the black-footed ferret population ...

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Three people, seven pets and 23 livestock animals have been directly exposed to a cat and skunk with rabies, according to ...