An Eastern Plains reintroduction strategy began in 2013 with the release of 300 ferrets to six Colorado sites over a period ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...