For many people, that means having a cat and a dog. However, some people are mixing things up a bit. Instead of keeping their ...

Tina Jackson fears federal job cuts and funding freezes could imperil work to save the species from the brink of extinction.

Coloradan Tina Jackson's one-year probationary period as a federal employee was set to end on March 10. But three weeks ago, ...

When an epidemic of plague struck prairie dogs within South Dakota’s greater Conata-Badlands ecosystem last spring, U.S. Fish ...

The concern comes after Tina Jackson, who led the species’ recovery across 12 states–including Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, ...

A woman in Pennsylvania spotted a rarely seen animal, a wild ermine (also known as a stoat or short-tailed weasel) in a ...

A dedicated team of workers is helping save the black-footed ferret. Now, President Trump is firing some of them. Experts ...

Efforts to help a genetically impoverished species may be the only chance for a stable population and the species' eventual removal from Endangered Species Act protections.

It's the first time a wild animal has been found to have rabies in the township. The dead ferret-badger is also the second ...

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Staffing cuts at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, including a key ferret recovery coordinator in Colorado, have sparked ...

Their paper, published in Nature Neuroscience, unveils patterns of cortical activity occurring in the ferret visual cortex before and after newly born pups first open their eyes. "The fundamental ...