Conservationists have been trying to save North America’s only native ferret for more than four decades. Twice it has been declared extinct. Now, scientists have come up with a pioneering plan to ...
A black-footed ferret. Credit: Kimberly Fraser/USFWS/flickr/CC BY 2.0 With its silky fur and bandit-masked face, the black-footed ferret cuts a cute — if lethal — figure on the American plains. It’s ...
A young black-footed ferret learns to hunt prairie dogs at the National Black-footed Ferret Conservation Center US Fish and Wildlife Service via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0) The black-footed ferret ...
Two more black-footed ferrets have been cloned from the genes used for the first clone of an endangered species in the U.S., bringing to three the number of slinky predators genetically identical to ...
Saturday, April 2, is National Ferret Day, but there will not be much celebration in California. The Golden State and Hawaii are the only states to ban domesticated ferrets. This heavy-handed ...