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 ...

PHOENIX — Twenty-one endangered black-footed ferrets were born at the Phoenix Zoo this breeding season in an effort to reintroduce the animals to the wild, the zoo and the Arthur L. and Elaine V.

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 ...

Two endangered baby black-footed ferrets have been born, but these babies are extremely unusual—they're both clones. Noreen was born at the National Black-Footed Ferret Conservation Center in Colorado ...

Phoenix Zoo, Arizona welcomed the birth of 21 endangered black-footed ferrets. Videos taken by the zoo on May 21 showed the tiny 11-days-old and nine-days-old kits cuddling while nest camera footage ...

A near-extinct species has been reinvigorated with fresh genetic material donated by a male that has been dead for 20 years. Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she hopes to get you as ...

The Arizona Center for Nature Conservation at the Phoenix Zoo is overrun with baby black-footed ferrets. Twenty-one of the endangered animals have been born to four mothers in the current breeding ...

Wildlife agencies want to expand the reintroduction area of the endangered black-footed ferret and make it easier for private landowners to participate in the recovery program. A proposed rule would ...

When President Nixon signed the Endangered Species Act into law 50 years ago, one of the first on the endangered list was the black-footed ferret, North America’s rarest animal. Once thought to be ...

Fourteen endangered black-footed ferrets were released this week in a prairie dog colony as part of a decades-long effort to restore the rarest mammal in North America, Colorado Parks and Wildlife ...