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

In 1979, the black-footed ferret was believed to be extinct. More than four decades later, scientists in the US have not only ...

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 ...

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Virginia is home to the world's first black-footed ferrets born to a cloned endangered animal, according to The National Zoo.

SUMMERS: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently announced that Antonia, a cloned black-footed ferret, had given birth to ...

Sibert and Red Cloud, black-footed ferret siblings at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute, are ...

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

Black-footed ferrets are one of the most endangered mammals in North America with only an estimated 370 in the wild, ...

A black-footed ferret cloned from a 1980s-era Colorado ferret gave birth to babies for the first time in an endangered species breakthrough.

The black-footed ferret program, run by the Fish and Wildlife Service, was the first time cloning was used as a conservation ...