For years, Colorado Parks and Wildlife officers have driven out to the eastern plains in the middle of the night, a predator’s hunting hours, in hopes of spotting a pair of green, gleaming eyes.

All across the animal kingdom, animals engage in dramatic and elaborate courting displays. Maybe they are birds who do a little dance, or fish who construct attractive nests in the hope of enticing a ...

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 ...

Colorado Parks and Wildlife conservation biologist Ed Schmal uses a spot light to search for black-footed ferrets among the praire dog towns Wednesday night, Oct. 22, 2025, on the Walker Ranch west of ...

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 ...

A black-footed ferret cloned from DNA of a ferret that lived in the 1980s has birthed two healthy kits, the first successful live births from a cloned endangered species and another win for a federal ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 be ...

We’ve ferreted out the answers to some of the most-searched questions about North America’s only native ferret species. Ashley Goetz Black-footed ferrets are well-suited for their prairie environment, ...