While one of the offspring, referred to as kits, passed away shortly after birth, the two others, a male and a female, “are ...

Scientists say the births of two ferrets are the first time a cloned endangered species has reproduced in a conservation ...

In a groundbreaking development for conservation, a cloned black-footed ferret named Antonia has given birth to two healthy kits, marking the first time a clone of an endangered U.S. species has ...

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 federal ...

Rachael is a writer and digital content producer at IFLScience with a Zoology degree from the University of Southampton, UK, and a nose for novelty animal stories. For the first time ever, two ...

is also the first cloned ferret to give birth worldwide. Antonia produced two adorable kits at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute (NZCBI) in Front Royal ...

The 3-month old black-footed ferret kits that are the offspring of Antonia, a cloned black-footed ferret, mark the first time a cloned U.S. endangered species has produced offspring.

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 ...