Viewers can watch a litter of black-footed ferrets and their mother, 2-year-old Aristides, on a temporary live webcam.

You’ve probably heard of Dolly the sheep. Now, meet Elizabeth Ann, the black-footed ferret. Scientists have successfully cloned an endangered black-footed ferret, using preserved cells from a ...

The Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute (NZCBI) in Front Royal, Virginia, celebrated the birth of a ...

The black-footed ferret is one of North America’s most endangered animals and has been since 1972. In fact, it got so bad that these ferrets were once thought to be extinct. Fortunately ...

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 ...

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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, weasel-like animals with distinctive dark bands around their eyes and black feet, are ruthless little hunters. At night, they dive into burrows in pursuit of juicy prairie ...

Carnivore keepers at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute (NZCBI) in Front Royal, Virginia, welcomed a litter of endangered black-footed ferrets last week. Three-year-old ...

LARIMER COUNTY, Colo. — The black-footed ferret may be short of stature, but they stand tall in the history books – they were the first North American endangered species to be cloned in 2020.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently announced that Antonia, a clone of a black-footed ferret born in the 1980s, successfully gave birth to two offspring, Sibert and Red Cloud, at the ...

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 ...