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 ...

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 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.

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 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.

Black-footed ferrets have been reintroduced to the Arizona landscape for the first time in almost 30 years, according to the Arizona Game and Fish Department. In collaboration with the United States ...

Meet black-footed ferrets Noreen and Antonia: Their recent births are boosting hopes of diversifying the endangered species after being all but wiped out in the wild.

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 ...

Antonia, one of the new black-footed ferret clones. The first black-footed ferret clone was born in 2020. The two new ferrets are the second and third successful clones.

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.