All across the animal kingdom, animals engage in dramatic and elaborate courting displays. Maybe they are birds who do a little dance, or fish who construct attractive nests in the hope of enticing a ...

Despite low survey numbers after years of ferret releases, new plague prevention and cloning techniques are giving scientists hope for the future.

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The Arizona Center for Nature Conservation and Phoenix Zoo announced that 34 endangered black-footed ferrets were born at the ...

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 ...

Once believed to be extinct, the black-footed ferret is making a stunning comeback across the American plains. In 1986, only ...

Two black-footed ferrets at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo have each given birth to a kit that was sired by males who died in 1999 and 2000. These endangered ferrets—part of a multi-institutional ...

It was thought that black-footed ferrets had gone extinct but a chance discovery of a colony in Wyoming has provided an opportunity to save the species.

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Black-footed ferrets were nearly wiped out by plague in the 1980s, and were only saved by a last-ditch effort to pull the 18 remaining individuals ...