Today, after numerous reintroductions, there are thought to be roughly 350 black-footed ferrets living in the wild, and these animals are suffering from low genetic diversity, disease, habitat loss, ...

Today, after numerous reintroductions, there are thought to be roughly 350 black-footed ferrets living in the wild, and these animals are suffering from low genetic diversity, disease, habitat ...

Sibert and Red Cloud, black-footed ferret siblings at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute, are the first members of an endangered species born to a cloned animal.

Animals born from cloned endangered ... Biology Institute in Virginia. A third baby, known as a kit, died shortly after birth. All three ferret kits were born in June 2024 and the two surviving ...

All other black-footed ferrets in the U.S. are descendants of just seven other animals, and Willa's biological samples contain "three times" the genetic diversity held in the black-footed ferret ...

The black-footed ferret, named Antonia ... In recent years, scientists have cloned other animals including the rhesus monkey named Retro who was born in July 2020 - making it 'the first live ...

For the first time, the clone of a black-footed ferret has reproduced successfully. Antonia, a clone produced from the DNA of a ferret that died in 1988, has birthed two healthy kits. The black ...