Manitoba is home to what is likely Canada’s largest ferret mill, a repurposed mink fur farm housing hundreds of ferrets bred ...

The black-footed ferret could also be called the black-eyed ferret because of the distinctive “stick-em up” mask that adorns its face. The tan ferrets also have black markings on their feet ...

Sandler says the cloning program took a big step with the recent birth. The first black-footed ferret that was successfully cloned, Elizabeth Ann, could not have offspring. Antonia, like Elizabeth ...

The ferrets were reintroduced only after scientists were able to combat the sylvatic plague, described by Game and Fish as one of the biggest threats to black-footed ferrets. Start the day smarter.

Elizabeth Ann is about two months old and was cloned from 33-year old DNA US scientists have successfully cloned a highly-endangered black-footed ferret using DNA from an identical animal that has ...

In the early 1900s, the United States was likely home to more than 5 million ferrets. But ferrets, which hunt prairie dogs for food and live in their burrows, were almost wiped out early in the 20th ...