Noreen and Antonia are clones of a ferret who was captured in the 1980s after the feared-extinct species was rediscovered.

Two female ferrets born last spring, named Noreen and Antonia, may be key to slowing their species’ decline, several experts told me. Both are clones of Willa, a Meeteetse ferret that died in ...

The U.S’s only native ferret is utterly adorable, and the effort to save it is creating a new blueprint for conservation. ... but by the 1980s the species was believed to have been wiped out.

The black-footed ferret (Mustela nigripes) is the continent's only native ferret species. It is small and sleek, ranging in length from a foot and a half to 2 feet.

In 2020, the black-footed ferret became the first endangered species in North America to be cloned in an effort to increase its vulnerable numbers. Now, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, in ...

The black-footed ferret was declared extinct in 1979, but later surveys discovered wild populations. It's now believed there are about 200 mature black-footed ferret in the wild across 18 populations.

What Sound Does a Black-footed Ferret Make? And Other Ferret Facts. We’ve ferreted out the answers to some of the most-searched questions about North America’s only native ferret species.

Two new black-footed ferret clones have been born over three years after a black-footed ferret became the first-ever endangered U.S. species to be cloned — and they used the same genetic ...

The only ferret species native to North America, the little predators had all but disappeared from the continent’s wild ranges by the 1970s, when scientists commonly agreed it was extinct.

Scientists in 2021 cloned the first U.S. endangered species, a black-footed ferret duplicated from the genes of an animal that died over 30 years ago. Two more black-footed ferrets have been ...

The U.S’s only native ferret is utterly adorable, and the effort to save it is creating a new blueprint for conservation. It all began with a dog named Shep.