For the first time in nearly three decades, ten black-footed ferret kits have been reintroduced to the Aubrey Valley/Double O Ranch area, Arizona's only active recovery site for these elusive ...

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 ...

For the first time, an endangered black-footed ferret named Antonia that was cloned from cryogenically-preserved tissue has given birth to two kits. It's a mouthful; and a technological breakthrough.

SUMMERS: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently announced that Antonia, a cloned black-footed ferret, had given birth to three kits after mating with a male named Urchin. One baby died ...

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 ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently announced that Antonia, a clone of a black-footed ferret born in the 1980s, successfully gave birth to two offspring, Sibert and Red Cloud, at the ...

Two feisty ferret babies in Virginia are being hailed as a symbol of hope for the future of their species. Scientists say Sibert and Red Cloud, black-footed ferret siblings at the Smithsonian's ...

Antonia, a cloned black-footed ferret at the Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute, has produced two healthy offspring that will help build genetic diversity in their recoverin ...

A black-footed ferret looks out from a prairie dog burrow after its release at May Ranch, near Lamar, Colo., in 2022. Black-footed ferrets were assumed to be extinct until 1981 when a dog ...