This cute kitten composite is among the finalists of the competition that celebrates the photography of our four-legged ...

The students from Lamar Middle School were invited to release the creatures on a private landowner’s property as part of the ...

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.

Antonia, a cloned black-footed ferret at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute, has produced two healthy offspring that will help build genetic diversity in their ...

Today, a major recovery effort is underway. The ferrets, which have been described as wiry, weasel-like and cute, once ranged throughout the North American Great Plains wherever they could find ...

Antonia the ferret successfully delivered two healthy kits after mating with Urchin, a three-year-old male of the same species, at the Smithsonian National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute ...

An endangered animal that was created by cloning gave birth to two healthy offspring at a Smithsonian Institution/National ...

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 ...