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.

If only black-footed ferrets had a brand ambassador like groundhogs have in Punxsutawney Phil. The endangered ferrets don’t quite feel the same love as the famous groundhog, but they do get a ...

As a proud mom of a black cat for more than a decade, I feel comfortable making the bold claim that black cats are just built differently. People have been taught to superstitiously avoid black cats ...

OH! OH! That's different, yeah!“ It's like Shadow is saying, “If not friend, why friend shaped?” She wants to go play with those Bobcats! And the fact there are a few of them! That's way better than ...

The black-footed ferret (Mustela nigripes) stands as one of North America’s most captivating yet endangered mammals. Known for its slender, weasel-like body and distinct black markings on its feet and ...

One such animal is the grasshopper, Tetrix subulata, that's featured in several studies investigating fire melanism. A 2011 study found that the frequency of melanistic grasshoppers was ...

Wild black-footed ferret wearing a novel tracking collar peers out of a prairie dog burrow. Roshan Patel, Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute.

His efforts were rewarded when he found a king penguin (Aptenodytes patagonicus) like no other he’d seen before, one with black feathers all over its body. “Melanism is something that occurs ...

The International Big Cat Alliance (IBCA) became a full-fledged treaty in January ... Jaguars (Panthera Onca): Jaguars are not native to India and are mainly found in South America. Melanistic (black) ...

Its size rivals that of the smallest modern cats, such as the black-footed cat or the rusty-spotted cat. The Prionailurus kurteni is an extinct species of leopard cat, much smaller than modern ...