On Nov. 1, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced the first-ever birth of black-footed ferrets to a cloned parent — ...

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.

They were born in June, along with a third who died shortly after birth, according to the agency. Sibert and Red Cloud could make an enormous contribution to the species because their mother was ...

Antonia, a cloned black-footed ferret at the Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute, has produced two healthy offspring that will help build genetic diversity in their recoverin ...

Black-footed ferrets, also known as American polecats ... Their names are Sibert and Red Cloud, respectively, and biologists ...

Meet Sibert and Red Cloud, baby black-footed ferrets that mark the first successful live births from a cloned endangered ...

The domestic ferret, though not as common a laboratory animal as the rat or mouse, serves as a model in critical research areas, including influenza biology and vaccine development. Studies ...

Antonia was described as the first cloned ferret to restore lost genetic variation to its species. One of her kits died, but two survived. Sibert is a female and Red Cloud is a male. They are ...