How will layoffs slashing a Colorado facility’s staff by more than a quarter impact efforts to restore the endangered ...

Though black-footed ferrets sometimes eat squirrels, mice, and other rodents, prairie dogs are essential to their survival, making up the majority of the ferret diet. These voracious predators ...

Black-footed ferrets are North America's only native ferret ... about a month before beginning to sample their mom's diet and eating meat. A couple months after that, the kits will separate ...

In the early 1900s, the United States was likely home to more than 5 million ferrets. But ferrets, which hunt prairie dogs for food and live in their burrows, were almost wiped out early in the 20th ...