Yet, the black-footed ferret, with its bandit-like mask and playful nature, has done just that. Once believed to be lost forever, this small predator’s journey from extinction’s edge is ...

Black-footed ferrets remain one of North America’s most endangered mammals, and threats like disease, habitat loss, and climate change continue to loom. However, the progress achieved so far ...

Black-footed ferrets are one of the most endangered mammals in North America with only an estimated 370 in the wild, according to the World Wildlife Fund. Accessibility links.

In a "groundbreaking achievement," a clone of an endangered species of ferret has given birth to babies for the very first time. The mother, named Antonia, is a clone of another black-footed ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sibert and Red Cloud could make an enormous contribution to the species because their mother was cloned from a black-footed ferret from the 1980s, named Willa, who had no offspring.

The cloned black-footed ferret, Antonia, produced two kits, a male and female, at the Smithsonian National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute in Virginia. The organization's senior curator ...

Black-footed ferrets were first put on the endangered species list in 1967. And then in 1979, when the last known member of the species died in captivity, they were declared extinct.

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.

FWS pictures of black-footed ferret clones Antonia (main) and Noreen (inset). These ferrets are clones of a ferret named Willa who was captured in the 1980s.

50 years ago this month, President Richard Nixon signed the Endangered Species Act into law. One of the first on the endangered list the black footed ferret, North America's rarest animal.