The small critters native to Arizona were reintroduced this year for the first time in three decades after a bacterial ...

Arizona wildlife officials have released 10 endangered black-footed ferrets in an attempt to rebuild the population at the ...

Sibert and Red Cloud, black-footed ferret siblings at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute, are the first members of an endangered species born to a cloned animal.

Emergence and spread of H5N1 virus clade 2.3.4.4b across continents, infecting marine mammals and raising concerns about milk ...

Ferrets were first reintroduced to Colorado in 2001 at Wolf Creek, north of Rangely. After dozens were released over several ...

In 1979, the black-footed ferret was believed to be extinct. More than four decades later, scientists in the US have not only cloned the species from the last wild survivors, but one of those clones ...

Plague-fighting techniques and cloning have fuelled the comeback of the critically endangered black-footed ferret.

The ferret population began to rapidly decline in the 1900s as people began clearing their habitat and killing prairie dogs from farmland. In 2013, conservation groups, commercial companies and ...