Wildlife agencies want to expand the reintroduction area of the endangered black-footed ferret and make it easier for private landowners to participate in the recovery program. A proposed rule would ...

Despite some reluctance voiced by one loud chattering critter, five critically endangered black-footed ferrets were released Nov. 19 on the Walker Ranch near Pueblo West. They didn’t know it but the ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A black-footed ferret, North America’s most endangered mammal, was captured Monday by Colorado wildlife officials in a Pueblo West garage and released back ...

In a quiet building between the camels and cheetahs, five black-footed ferrets have given birth to 25 kits, marking what could be the Phoenix Zoo's most successful breeding season of the endangered ...

AMAR — Somewhere between the comforts of a plastic tote outfitted with clean, shredded paper and a bloody quarter of a prairie dog for snacks, and the yawning dark hole he was being tipped into as ...

The ridiculously cute Elizabeth Ann made her debut in February as the first cloned black-footed ferret. She is the genetic twin of Willa, one of the last 18 wild ferrets captured in the 1980s for a ...

“I wear the chain I forged in life,” replied [Morley’s] Ghost. “I made it link by link, and yard by yard.” Our immune system, like those chains, contains our immunologic memories. Ferrets can teach us ...