Returning from the near brink of extinction, efforts continue to study Colorado's black-footed ferret population. This week, ...

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For the first time, the clone of a black-footed ferret has reproduced successfully. Antonia, a clone produced from the DNA of a ferret that died in 1988, has birthed two healthy kits. The black-footed ...

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 population ...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. — Scientists have cloned the first U.S. endangered species, a black-footed ferret duplicated from the genes of an animal that died over 30 years ago. The slinky predator named Elizabeth ...

As the Pueblo Chemical Depot is preparing for closure, the installation reintroduced a once-thought extinct species to the depot as part of a broader environmental management plan. The black-footed ...

Pueblo is poised to offer up prime habitat in the battle to restore black-footed ferret populations to the prairie land the nation's most endangered mammal once called home. Since 2013, more than 125 ...

Elizabeth Ann was born using the frozen cells of a black-footed ferret called Willa that died in 1988. She will be raised in the National Black-footed Ferret Conservation Center in Colorado. The ...

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 ...