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Ferrets have long weaseled their way into many people's hearts. To the surprise of some, the small fury animals were domesticated centuries ago, and they can be great pets for people who live in small ...

This photo provided by Revive & Restore shows a cloned black-footed ferret named Noreen, Feb. 19, 2024, at the National Black-Footed Ferret Conservation Center in Carr, Colo. Two more black-footed ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Two more black-footed ...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. -- Feeding peanut butter kibbles to millions of prairie dogs -- by flinging the treats from four-wheelers and dropping them from drones -- could be the next big thing to help a little ...

MEETEETSE, Wyo. (AP) - A nocturnal species of weasel with a robber-mask-like marking across its eyes has returned to the remote ranchlands of western Wyoming where the critter almost went extinct more ...

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 ...