Noreen and Antonia are clones of a ferret who was captured in the 1980s after the feared-extinct species was rediscovered.

This ferret died 33 years ago—and scientists just brought her back to life. Meet Elizabeth Ann, the very first clone of a U.S. endangered species.

This marked a landmark moment—not just for ferrets, but for all endangered species—proving that cloning could restore lost genetic diversity. Elizabeth Ann: The First Cloned Black-Footed Ferret.

MINOT, N.D. (KMOT) - There’s another new member to the Roosevelt Park Zoo family, and this time it’s a rare black-footed ...

In a "groundbreaking achievement," a clone of an endangered species of ferret has given birth to babies for the very first time. The mother, named Antonia, is a clone of another black-footed ...

As many as one million black-footed ferrets lived on the continent in the late 1800s, but by the late 1950s, the species was presumed extinct. Scientists discovered a wild population in 1964, but ...

When President Nixon signed the Endangered Species Act into law 50 years ago, one of the first on the endangered list was the black-footed ferret, North America’s rarest animal. Once thought to ...

Sibert and Red Cloud, black-footed ferret siblings at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute, are the first members of an endangered species born to a cloned animal.

A cloned black-footed ferret successfully gave birth — marking the first time a U.S. clone of an endangered species produced offspring, and an opportunity to rebuild the black-footed ferret ...

Black-footed ferrets are an endangered species in the United States — Novak estimates there are only around 600 ferrets in the wild and in breeding centers around the country, ...

The U.S’s only native ferret is utterly adorable, and the effort to save it is creating a new blueprint for conservation. ... but by the 1980s the species was believed to have been wiped out.

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.