Thanks to the development of a special tracking collar, scientists are now reviewing data to understand the lives of ...

However, the animals have been plagued by disease, habitat loss and other challenges ... about those first few days after ferrets are released into the wild, where the ferrets go and what they ...

A wild black-footed ferret stands near a prairie ... The research team also tagged 50 of the engineers of ferret habitat and food resources – prairie dogs. Their colonies provide shelter for ...

Other ferret facts: In September, five black-footed ferrets fitted with ... The tiny devices were removed from the ferrets after four days in the wild. Trackers on the prairie dogs were removed after ...

Usually, when a creature is considered extinct, it's thought to be gone forever. But that's not true of this species, which ...

A Florida man faces charges after he allegedly touched young girls he lured to his home with the promise of letting them pet his ferrets. Robert Alan Rouse, 36, of Clearwater, is charged with two ...

CLEARWATER, Fla. (WFLA) — A man was arrested on Tuesday after he allegedly used his pet ferrets to lure children into his house in an attempt to molest them. According to an arrest affidavit ...

Observing animal behavior in a laboratory offers a controlled environment, but these model organisms can behave differently ...

Any animal’s eye color is determined by its levels of two melanin pigments: eumelanin, which makes brown-black, and ...

Across Kenya, grasslands underpin people's lives—as well as those of animals like elephants, giraffes, and hyenas. But the ...