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Black-footed ferrets are North America's only native ferret ... with a thin layer of white fur covering their bodies. Their well-known mask-like markings and namesake dark feet will appear in ...

Benji Jones is an environmental correspondent at Vox, covering biodiversity loss and climate change. Before joining Vox, he was a senior energy reporter at Business Insider. Benji previously ...

Presently, ferrets survive at 14 of those sites. Currently there are 340 black-footed ferrets in the wild and 301 in captivity. For decades the Center has been defending this species from threats like ...

tend to live in more dispersed colonies than black-tailed and white-tailed prairie dogs. Individual black-footed ferrets typically require 130 acres of prairie dogs to provide them with sufficient ...

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. But two years ...

Jess Thomson is a Newsweek Science Reporter based in London UK. Her focus is reporting on science, technology and healthcare. She has covered weird animal behavior, space news and the impacts of ...

A cloned black-footed ferret successfully gave birth — marking the first time a U.S. clone of an endangered species produced offspring, and an opportunity to rebuild the black-footed ferret ...

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.

If only black-footed ferrets had a brand ambassador like groundhogs have in Punxsutawney Phil. The endangered ferrets don’t quite feel the same love as the famous groundhog, but they do get a ...