In the process, the black-footed ferret was nearly wiped out. In 1987, 18 animals were captured in the wild to begin a captive breeding program, which has since reintroduced ferrets into promising ...

Thirteen years after they were listed as endangered in 1967, the last captive ferret died, and the animals were thought to be extinct ... Presently, ferrets survive at 14 of those sites. Currently ...

The Przewalski horse, which was cloned from the 40-year old DNA of a wild stallion, was named Kurt. The black-footed ferret is North America's only ferret species and is among the most endangered ...

Wildlife biologists are sharing "a lot of good news coming out of ferret world" in the fight to save North America's critically endangered black-footed ferret. In Pueblo County, there's evidence of at ...

In the wild, ferrets can eat up to 100 prairie dogs in a year, and are also important prey for raptors, burrowing owls, kit foxes, badgers and coyotes. Wildlife biologists have released ferrets in six ...

A black footed ferret kit pops up from a prairie dog hole ... started we had under 15 black-footed ferrets collected from the wild and biologists worried about a genetic bottleneck," he said.

The black-footed ferret, named Antonia ... Scientists discovered a wild population in 1964, but even that group died out, and ...

The world’s first cloned black-footed ferret has given birth in a historic ... with no plans currently to release them into ...

Sometimes a curious ferret will be spotted but they ... "When the breeding program started we had under 15 black-footed ferrets collected from the wild and biologists worried about a genetic ...

The black-footed ferret could be coming back to New Mexico. The animal is the country's only native ferret species and historically lived in parts of the southwest including New Mexico and Arizona.

“Ferret on the loose! You never know what a wild animal is going to do and this black-footed ferret decided to run around and investigate the students there to let it free into the wild,” the ...