In 1979, the black-footed ferret was believed to be extinct. More than four decades later, scientists in the US have not only cloned the species from the last wild survivors, but one of those ...

Plus, the two baby ferrets — known as "kits" — are adorable as hell ... and she was created last year using preserved tissue ...

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.

The new mother, named Antonia, was cloned from a black-footed ferret named Willa who died in 1988 at the San Diego Zoo. That ...