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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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Wildlife conservationists are celebrating a big milestone reached by a little black-footed ferret and her offspring, born at the ...

This video is no longer available. Eight slender, endangered ferret babies were born last week at the National Zoo’s Virginia campus, covered in white fur and weighing about as much as a AAA battery.

In 1979, the black-footed ferret was believed to be extinct. More than four decades later, scientists in the US have not only cloned the species from the last wild survivors, but one of those clones ...

The baby black-footed ferrets at three weeks old, born to a mother cloned from genetic material collected in 1988. (Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute) A cloned black-footed ...