SELIGMAN — Wildlife officials released 10 endangered black-footed ferrets at Arizona’s only active ferret reintroduction site Wednesday, the latest development in a decades-long effort to save the ...

When Quinn Iffert and Ellie Johnson, zookeepers at Roosevelt Park Zoo in Minot, took part in a project to spotlight ...

LARIMER COUNTY, Colo. — The black-footed ferret may be short of stature, but they stand tall in the history books – they were the first North American endangered species to be cloned in 2020. This ...

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 ...

When an epidemic of plague struck prairie dogs within South Dakota’s greater Conata-Badlands ecosystem last spring, U.S. Fish ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has announced the births of Noreen and Antonia Brenton Blanchet is an Associate Editor on PEOPLE's TV team. He has been working at PEOPLE since 2022 and his work has ...

Wild black-footed ferret wearing a novel tracking collar peers out of a prairie dog burrow. Roshan Patel, Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute. Photos and b-roll are available ...

In the open grasslands of South Dakota, not far from the dramatic rock formations of Badlands National Park, lives one of the continent’s cutest, fiercest, and rarest animals: the black-footed ferret.

The Bureau of Land Management may be able to reintroduce endangered black-footed ferrets in north-central Montana provided that it complies with conditions identified in a preliminary finding by the U ...

The wildlife biologist for the Wall Ranger District and the Buffalo Gap National Grasslands near Wall recently won the Rocky Mountain regional leadership award, U.S. Forest Service officials said.