With biologists from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service furloughed because of the shutdown, a critical release of 400 captive ...

As the federal government shutdown drags on into a second week, a critical animal recovery program based in Colorado has ...

Meet Sibert and Red Cloud, baby black-footed ferrets that mark the first successful live births from a cloned endangered ...

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Government activities are delayed amid a shutdown, which is affecting everything from black-footed ferret recovery to ...

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 ...

PHOENIX — Twenty-one endangered black-footed ferrets were born at the Phoenix Zoo this breeding season in an effort to reintroduce the animals to the wild, the zoo and the Arthur L. and Elaine V.

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-footed ...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. — Scientists have cloned the first U.S. endangered species, a black-footed ferret duplicated from the genes of an animal that died over 30 years ago. The slinky predator named Elizabeth ...

Elizabeth Ann is the world's first cloned black-foot ferret, and was born on December 10th, 2020. Elizabeth Ann made history just over a year ago as the first-ever cloned black-footed ferret. She was ...

Elizabeth Ann was born using the frozen cells of a black-footed ferret called Willa that died in 1988. She will be raised in the National Black-footed Ferret Conservation Center in Colorado. The ...