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 ...

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

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.

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

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

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