The global pandemic made 2020 an exhausting year, but for many people one thing brought some much-needed relief -- animals. Shelters have reported so many foster and adoption applications that some ...

In Colorado, scientists have cloned the first endangered species native to North America: a black-footed ferret. They hope their new technology might help keep other species from going extinct. I ...

If only black-footed ferrets had a brand ambassador like groundhogs have in Punxsutawney Phil. The endangered ferrets don’t quite feel the same love as the famous groundhog, but they do get a little ...

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 ...

Should human beings feed golden hamsters to black-footed ferrets? This provocative question (and for some, an unanticipated query) leads to many others about how we interact with nonhuman animals ...