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

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 ...