Six black-footed ferret kits were born on May 11 at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute ...

A frozen cell line from a black-footed ferret that died in 1988 is helping scientists add genetic diversity to one of America ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. In a "groundbreaking achievement," a clone of an endangered species of ...

Scientists have cloned an endangered US animal for the first time, creating a black-footed ferret named Elizabeth Ann from the frozen cells of an ancestor in a landmark achievement that boosts ...

This video is no longer available. Eight slender, endangered ferret babies were born last week at the National Zoo’s Virginia campus, covered in white fur and weighing about as much as a AAA battery.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Wildlife conservationists are celebrating a big milestone reached by a little black-footed ferret and her offspring, born at the ...

As the Pueblo Chemical Depot is preparing for closure, the installation reintroduced a once-thought extinct species to the depot as part of a broader environmental management plan. The black-footed ...

A cloned ferret named Antonia successfully gave birth to two kits earlier this year. It was the first time a cloned black-footed ferret has been able to reproduce, the Fish and Wildlife Service said.

A black-footed ferret named Elizabeth Ann has become the first endangered species native to North America to ever be cloned, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) said Thursday. Scientists used ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Wildlife biologists are sharing "a lot of good news coming out of ferret world" in the fight to save North America's critically ...

Wildlife conservationists are celebrating a big milestone reached by a little black-footed ferret and her offspring, born at the Smithsonian National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute earlier ...

A black-footed ferret cloned from DNA of a ferret that lived in the 1980s has birthed two healthy kits, the first successful live births from a cloned endangered species and another win for a federal ...