One of North America’s most endangered species is getting a new lease on life thanks to technological innovations. This past ...

Animals born from cloned endangered species are no longer just for the silver screens of “Jurassic Park.” They might just be a model for species conservation. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ...

Eleven black-footed ferrets were born at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo facility in Virginia, marking a big step in cloning ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Arizona Game and Fish Department (AZGFD) biologists have taken a significant step toward rescuing the endangered black-footed ferret from extinction. Ten black-footed ferrets have been reintroduced to ...

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 ...

Two more black-footed ferrets have been cloned from the genes used for the first clone of an endangered species in the U.S., bringing to three the number of slinky predators genetically identical to ...

In the open grasslands of South Dakota, not far from the dramatic rock formations of Badlands National Park, lives one of the continent’s cutest, fiercest, and rarest animals: the black-footed ferret.