Noreen and Antonia, two recently-born black-footed ferrets ... This is more than just an experiment: researchers hope the cloned animals will play an important role in reviving their endangered ...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Two more black-footed ferrets have been cloned from the genes used for the first clone of an endangered species in the U.S., bringing to three the number of slinky ...

Scientists have cloned an endangered US animal ... from the brink of extinction. Black-footed ferrets are one of North America’s most endangered species. They were declared extinct in 1979 ...

This is the first time any native endangered species has been cloned in the United States. The advance is a milestone for the conservation of black-footed ferrets, North America’s only native ...

Her birth represents the first cloning of an endangered species native ... So it is fitting that the ferrets have become the second species to be cloned for this type of genetic rescue.

Today, black-footed ferrets have been upgraded to the endangered species list with an estimated 206 black-footed ferrets alive in the wild and several hundred more in captivity. In many ways ...

This 2-foot-long, black-masked member ... Canada to Texas but is now one of the most endangered mammals in North America. In the early 1900s, the United States was likely home to more than 5 million ...

When an animal becomes endangered ... it was confirmed that the cloned female was pregnant. It then gave birth to two healthy kits (baby ferrets). This is the first time that a cloned animal ...

But for the Devils Hole pupfish, a critically endangered species found only in a deep limestone cave in Death Valley, an earthquake signals that it’s time to do something a bit more intimate.