In late summer, as researchers accelerated the first clinical trials of COVID-19 vaccines for humans, a group of scientists in Colorado worked to inoculate a far more fragile species. About 120 ...

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DENVER | Rare black-footed ferrets chattered angrily before dashing out of pet carriers and ducking into burrows Monday at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge — a milestone for the ...

MEETEETSE, Wyo. (AP) — Biologists have released 13 more black-footed ferrets on a ranch where scientists more than 30 years ago rediscovered the slinky predators after they were thought to have gone ...

As the festive season approaches, the demand for pets as holiday gifts tends to spike. People can be drawn to exotic or unique animals, hoping to surprise their loved ones with something special. A ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The black-footed ferret, once the rarest mammal in the world, has made an astonishing comeback in Wyoming after a captive breeding program, researchers said on Thursday. Sign up ...

The area infected with the plague in Conata Basin has more than doubled in the past two weeks, threatening to overwhelm efforts of insecticide-dusting crews trying to keep the disease from decimating ...

That's our whole motivation. Cloning is just one of the tools," said Revive & Restore co-founder and executive director Ryan Phelan. Elizabeth Ann was born to a tame domestic ferret, which avoided ...

BILLINGS (AP) -- Federal biologists have made a rare find in northern Montana: a wild-born litter of baby black-footed ferrets. The two kits are the first known to have been born in the wild on lands ...

DENVER | Rare black-footed ferrets will be released Monday at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge — a milestone for the highly endangered animals and for the former toxic waste site on ...