The tan ferrets also have black markings on their feet, legs, and tail tip. This animal's long slender body, like that of a weasel, enables it to crawl in and out of the holes and dwellings of its ...

Elizabeth Ann is about two months old and was cloned from 33-year old DNA US scientists have successfully cloned a highly-endangered black-footed ferret using DNA from an identical animal that has ...

Black-footed ferrets have been reintroduced to the Arizona landscape for the first time in almost 30 years, according to the Arizona Game and Fish Department. In collaboration with the United ...

The cloned black-footed ferret, Antonia, produced two kits, a male and female, at the Smithsonian National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute in Virginia. The organization's senior curator, Paul ...

For the first time, the clone of a black-footed ferret has reproduced successfully. Antonia, a clone produced from the DNA of a ferret that died in 1988, has birthed two healthy kits. The black ...

The domestic ferret, though not as common a laboratory animal as the rat or mouse, serves as a model in critical research areas, including influenza biology and vaccine development. Studies ...

In the early 1900s, the United States was likely home to more than 5 million ferrets. But ferrets, which hunt prairie dogs for food and live in their burrows, were almost wiped out early in the 20th ...