If you’ve ever seen both a ferret and a weasel, you’ll agree that it can be pretty difficult to spot the difference between ...

We’re a little worried about the weasels,” said Roland Kays, a research professor at North Carolina State University and ...

Between 2022 and 2023, researchers placed 486 camera traps in sites across the central and eastern United States where they ...

The tan ferrets also have black markings on their feet, legs, and tail tip. This animal's long slender body, like that of a weasel, enables it to crawl in and out of the holes and dwellings of its ...

Weasels are often difficult to capture on camera, making it hard for conservationists to track their population numbers. This ...

This 2-foot-long, black-masked member of the weasel family once occurred in central grasslands ... In the early 1900s, the United States was likely home to more than 5 million ferrets. But ferrets, ...

They baited those traps with seven types of lures to see which ones attracted the most mustelids -- a diverse family of carnivores that includes weasels, ferrets and martens. Red meat outperformed ...