Carnivore keepers at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute (NZCBI) in Front Royal, Virginia, ...

Viewers can watch a litter of black-footed ferrets and their mother, 3-year-old Aristides, on a temporary live webcam.

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 ...

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

An endangered black-footed ferret named Aristides gave birth on May 28 at the Smithsonian National Zoo’s institute in Front Royal, Virginia.

PHOENIX — Six itsy-bitsy black-footed ferrets have been born through the Phoenix Zoo's recovery program. The litter from first-time mom Mandolin arrived two weeks ago. Mandolin will care for ...

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 ...

Benji Jones is an environmental correspondent at Vox, covering biodiversity loss and climate change. Before joining Vox, he was a senior energy reporter at Business Insider. Benji previously ...

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 ...

Fifteen black-footed ferrets were released from captivity Wednesday to discover a whole new world — the sweeping sunny plains of Soapstone Prairie, where they became the first and only of the ...

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.

Wildlife biologists are sharing "a lot of good news coming out of ferret world" in the fight to save North America's critically endangered black-footed ferret. In Pueblo County, there's evidence ...