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

Work at the National Black-Footed Ferret Conservation Center in northern Colorado is helping save one of the most endangered ...

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 ...

The black-footed ferret is native to the prairies of North America, with a habitat that stretches from southern Canada to northern Mexico. They face a number of threats in the wild, including ...

There are animals you see so often they become part of the scenery. It is impossible to make a blanket statement about which ...

"And then reintroduce them into the wild, into their native habitat and it is making a difference." Della Garelle is one of the reasons there are now several hundred black-footed ferrets living in ...