“The black-footed ferret, my clan uncle told me, is from the Platte River, Casper area,” said Marlin Not Afraid, director of the Crow Fish and Game Department. “On each side of the Platte ...

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 ...

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.

This is where they recently released 17 black-footed ferrets in the latest attempt to boost the population of what’s been called North America’s rarest mammal. As a Colorado Parks and Wildlife ...

Cameron Park Zoo is now home to a small but fierce new resident — Gaia, a female black-footed cat. Gaia weighs in at just 3 pounds, but her significance to conservation efforts looms large ...

Black-footed ferrets have been reintroduced to the Arizona landscape for the first time in almost 30 years, according to the Arizona Game and Fish Department. In collaboration with the United States ...

Colorado Parks and Wildlife released endangered black-footed ferrets on May Ranch in Lamar, Colo. on Nov. 14, with the help of students from Lamar Middle School (Amanda Pampuro/Courthouse News). LAMAR ...

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 ...

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 ...