In a "groundbreaking achievement," a clone of an endangered species of ferret has given birth to babies for the very first time. The mother, named Antonia, is a clone of another black-footed ...

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.

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 ...

As many as one million black-footed ferrets lived on the continent in the late 1800s, but by the late 1950s, the species was presumed extinct. Scientists discovered a wild population in 1964, but ...

Sibert and Red Cloud could make an enormous contribution to the species because their mother was cloned from a black-footed ferret from the 1980s, named Willa, who had no offspring.

This marked a landmark moment—not just for ferrets, but for all endangered species—proving that cloning could restore lost genetic diversity. Elizabeth Ann: The First Cloned Black-Footed Ferret.

Animals born from cloned endangered species are no longer just for the silver screens of “Jurassic Park.” They might just be a model for species conservation. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife ...

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.

The center breeds most of the black-footed ferrets in the US today. It’s a painstaking process that involves carefully pairing individuals to make sure their babies will boost the population’s ...

The bedrock of this program is the Black-Footed Ferret Conservation Center near Fort Collins, Colorado. The center breeds most of the black-footed ferrets in the US today.

The U.S’s only native ferret is utterly adorable, and the effort to save it is creating a new blueprint for conservation. ... but by the 1980s the species was believed to have been wiped out.

Cloned black-footed ferret Antonia's kits at three weeks old, on July 9, 2024. Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute, Public Domain In a victory for conservation, a ...