Meet Sibert and Red Cloud, baby black-footed ferrets that mark the first successful live births from a cloned endangered ...

Saving rare species from extinction requires extraordinary measures. The black-footed ferret is one of North America’s most endangered mammals. Once thought to be extinct, after the species was ...

The two healthy kits are the first born from a cloned black-footed ferret. Their mother, Antonia, was cloned from a ferret ...

For the first time, an endangered black-footed ferret named Antonia that was cloned from cryogenically-preserved tissue has given birth to two kits. It's a mouthful; and a technological breakthrough.

A black-footed ferret cloned from DNA of a ferret that lived in the 1980s has birthed two healthy kits, the first successful live births from a cloned endangered species and another win for a ...

Parker Seibold, The Gazette Nov 14, 2024 Nov 14, 2024 Updated 3 hrs ago ...

Wildlife conservationists are celebrating a big milestone reached by a little black-footed ferret and her offspring, born at the Smithsonian National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute earlier ...

Subject Specialist The journalist and/or newsroom have/has a deep knowledge of the topic, location or community group covered in this article. A black-footed ferret cloned from DNA of a ferret that ...

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

A black-footed ferret looks out from a prairie dog burrow after its release at May Ranch, near Lamar, Colo., in 2022. Black-footed ferrets were assumed to be extinct until 1981 when a dog ...

Antonia, one of three cloned ferrets based on DNA of a female captured in 1980 – credit, US Fish and Wildlife Service In Front Royal, a black-footed ferret named Antonia has just given birth to ...