Sixty percent of the black-footed cat's hunts are successful, making it the wild feline with the best kill rate. Rawr! Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since ...

Elizabeth Ann is just 2 months old, but her extraordinary life is already making history. This black-footed ferret is a clone of an animal that died more than 30 years ago, and she is the first ...

Unlike the deer mouse which it closely resembles, the white-footed mouse’s fur is not soft and luxuriant, and the general color of the back and sides is a reddish or orangish, not grayish, brown. A ...

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. This ...

The black-footed ferret, once thought to be extinct in the wild, was rediscovered in 1981 with a small population of 24 animals in Wyoming―30 years later the species’ future is brighter than ever. The ...

Twenty-five years ago today, a dog in Wyoming arrived at its owner's doorstep with a dead black-footed ferret in its mouth. Until then, biologists had thought the species was extinct. Within a few ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. In a "groundbreaking achievement," a clone of an endangered species of ferret has given birth to babies for the very ...

On December 28, Utah's Hogle Zoo introduced Gaia, an eight-month old black-footed cat, to their Small Animal Building. Recent pictures show Gaia getting comfortable at the zoo as she snuggles in a ...