Sometimes the right person for the job isn’t a person at all … Our relationship with animals is deeply peculiar, spanning the spectrum from besotted to breezily exploitative. Whether they are friends, ...

It’s understandable if you’ve never heard of the coastal marten. These secretive—but adorable—woodland carnivores nearly went extinct. Fortunately, these ferret-sized mammals are making a slow ...

While it is certainly convenient and cheap to feed your ferret food designed for other species, they do have unique nutritional needs. Here's a list of foods they shouldn't eat. Ferrets are true ...

GREENFIELD — Nearly 90 frisky ferrets converged on the Hancock County Fairgrounds last weekend for the Ferret 500. The annual fundraiser is hosted by Five Points Ferret Refuge, a nonprofit rescue on ...

Elizabeth Ann is just 2 months old, but her extraordinary life is already making history. This black-footed ferret is a clone of an animal that died more than 30 years ago, and she is the first ...

If you’re looking for a fun, non-traditional pet, ferrets may seem like an obvious choice. Unfortunately, they’re not as simple as you might think. In fact, there’s a lot you probably don’t know about ...

The US Fish and Wildlife Service has announced that a cloned black-footed ferret just produced the first-ever offspring of a cloned endangered species in the US, in a “groundbreaking achievement in ...

Scientists have cloned an endangered US animal for the first time, creating a black-footed ferret named Elizabeth Ann from the frozen cells of an ancestor in a landmark achievement that boosts ...

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 ferret, ...

Glancing furtively over his garden fence, this is the moment a tree surgeon checked the coast was clear before deliberately dropping a ferret into a neighbour's garden where it savaged their pet ...