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

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 ...

The Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute celebrated the birth of a litter of endangered black-footed ...

Yet, the black-footed ferret, with its bandit-like mask and playful nature, has done just that. Once believed to be lost forever, this small predator’s journey from extinction’s edge is not ...

Black-footed ferrets were first put on the endangered species list in 1967. And then in 1979, when the last known member of the species died in captivity, they were declared extinct. But two years ...

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 ...

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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.

If only black-footed ferrets had a brand ambassador like groundhogs have in Punxsutawney Phil. The endangered ferrets don’t quite feel the same love as the famous groundhog, but they do get a ...

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 ...