The first clone of a black-footed ferret, Elizabeth Anne ... and everyone else is on the genomic side of things. But we don’t ...

Elizabeth is currently at the National Black-footed Ferret Conservation Center in Colorado, which is also home to Noreen. Antonia, on the other side, resides in Virginia at the Smithsonian’s ...

Jackson knows just about everything about black-footed ferrets. "They're a really important little creature in that they depend on prairie dogs. They live in prairie dog burrows and eat mostly ...

Black-footed ferrets, weasel-like animals with distinctive dark bands around their eyes and black feet, are ruthless little hunters. At night, they dive into burrows in pursuit of juicy prairie ...

The domestic ferret, though not as common a laboratory ... as chemical restraint can have complicating side-effects. For example, isoflurane anesthesia causes a rapid decrease in all hematological ...

The black-footed ferret could also be called the black-eyed ferret because of the distinctive “stick-em up” mask that adorns its face. The tan ferrets also have black markings on their feet ...

DENVER — In northern Colorado, a dedicated team of workers is helping save an endangered species known as the black-footed ferret. Now, President Trump has fired some of the team at the National ...

Tina Jackson never tired of arriving to work at the National Black-Footed Ferret Conservation Center outside of Fort Collins. After nearly 30 years as a state wildlife manager, Jackson took a job ...

Ferrets being exposed to avian flu sweeping ... animals being dumped or discarded on the side of the highway when they’re no longer profitable. So if we get them at the front with all this ...

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 ...

Two black-footed ferret kits born to a cloned mother are healthy and happy at the Smithsonian National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute in Front Royal, Va. The mother, Antonia, was cloned ...