A black-footed ferret cloned from DNA of a ferret that lived in the 1980s has birthed two healthy kits, the first successful live births from a cloned endangered species and another win for a federal ...

Carnivore keepers at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute (NZCBI) in Front Royal, Virginia, welcomed a litter of endangered black-footed ferrets this week. One-year-old ...

An endangered animal that was created by cloning gave birth to two healthy offspring at a Smithsonian Institution/National Zoo center in Virginia, in what a federal agency called a conservation ...

In a victory for conservation, a cloned endangered animal has birthed healthy offspring for the first time in the United States. The black-footed ferret, named Antonia, is also the first cloned ferret ...

A cloned black-footed ferret successfully gave birth — marking the first time a U.S. clone of an endangered species produced offspring, and an opportunity to rebuild the black-footed ferret population ...

Antonia, a cloned black-footed ferret, gave birth to kits in June. They are seen at 3-weeks-old on July 9 at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in Front Royal, Virginia. Antonia was born ...

A litter of endangered critters were born at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute in Front Royal, Virginia, last Saturday. Aristides, a 1-year-old endangered black-footed ...

A cloned ferret named Antonia successfully gave birth to two kits earlier this year. It was the first time a cloned black-footed ferret has been able to reproduce, the Fish and Wildlife Service said.