PHOENIX — Twenty-one black-footed ferrets were recently born at the Phoenix Zoo's Arthur L. and Elaine V. Johnson Conservation Center, part of an ongoing effort to increase their populations in North ...

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 population ...

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 ...

Meet Aster, Swifty and Aspen. The trio of black-footed ferret kits at the Smithsonian National Zoo’s biology facility in Virginia were named after more than 6,700 people voted. The baby ferrets were ...

FIVE baby ferrets dumped in a bag along with their dead mother and sibling are being hand-reared at Coventry Animal Centre. The five-week-old animals were found in a bright orange Jeff Bains bag which ...