In the process, the black-footed ferret was nearly wiped out. In 1987, 18 animals were captured in the wild to begin a captive breeding program, which has since reintroduced ferrets into promising ...

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 ...

For the first time, an endangered black-footed ferret named Antonia that was cloned ... helped restore the wild population to more than 300 animals. That population, however, had gone through ...

Wildlife biologists are sharing "a lot of good news coming out of ferret world" in the fight to ... Nationally, the first-ever black-footed ferrets born to a cloned endangered animal were reported in ...