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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A black-footed ferret cloned from DNA of a ferret that lived in the 1980s has birthed two healthy kits, the first successful ...