After a fall survey of past black-footed ferret releases found zero alive, biologists call in aerial support to find what is ...

The black-footed ferret exhibit at American Prairie’s National Discovery Center in Lewistown, Montana, just opened to the ...

SELIGMAN — Wildlife officials released 10 endangered black-footed ferrets at Arizona’s only active ferret reintroduction site Wednesday, the latest development in a decades-long effort to save the ...

Biologists in southeastern Colorado are using drone technology to track and study endangered black-footed ferrets that have been released on the eastern plains.

Fourteen endangered black-footed ferrets were released this week in a prairie dog colony as part of a decades-long effort to restore the rarest mammal in North America, Colorado Parks and Wildlife ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A species of ferrets once thought to be extinct has been seen outside of special management areas in South Dakota, sparking hope in some biologists that a new wild colony of ...

The "rarest mammal in North America" was recently found in the garage of a Colorado home, said Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) officials in a press release on Wednesday. The mammal—a black-footed ...

PUEBLO WEST, Colo. (CBS4)- Some Colorado natives are back home after they haven't been around much since WWII. The black footed ferrets were released back into the wild on Monday. The 14 ferrets are ...

Colorado Parks and Wildlife released endangered black-footed ferrets on May Ranch in Lamar, Colo. on Nov. 14, with the help of students from Lamar Middle School (Amanda Pampuro/Courthouse News). LAMAR ...

Federal biologists have made a rare find in northern Montana: a wild-born litter of baby black-footed ferrets. The two kits are the first known to have been born in the wild on lands overseen by the ...

Ndivhuwo Shivambu works for the Tshwane University of Technology. She receives funding from the Tshwane University of Technology, the Faculty of Sciences and the Department of Nature Conservation. She ...

TUCSON — Richard Winstead spent weeks of tromping through grassy brush at 3 a.m., lugging a heavy backpack and shining a spotlight into the night looking for pairs of emerald-green eyes. Finally, ...