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

Saving rare species from extinction requires extraordinary measures. The black-footed ferret is one of North America’s most endangered mammals. Once thought to be extinct, after the species was ...

According to Asbury Woods, the ferrets play a central role in educational programming at the nature center. The exhibit hall inside the Nature Center at Asbury Woods is home to 27 animals and a bee ...

Interior Department employees say they have been scrambling to keep the lights on and do their jobs as budget cuts driven by ...

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 ...

A longstanding question in evolutionary biology is how sexual selection influences how entire genomes develop. Sexual ...

The National Black-Footed Ferret Conservation Center in Carr, Colo., is at risk of losing heat and power as its remaining employees rush to prepare for the animal's breeding season. A federal ...