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

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

After an Animal Justice investigation at a Manitoba ferret mill, a major US rescue group has pledged $50,000 to save the animals.

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

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

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

The goal? To help identify where and how stone martens – small, ferret-like animals – attack cars. The idea is to observe the animals' behavior around the vehicles, see where they go ...

Little Paws Ferret Rescue have launched a fundraising campaign as they aim to raise more than £2,000 for doors to buildings ...

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 ...

ferrets had vanished, and scientists considered them extinct. But in the fall of 1981, a dog named Shep changed everything. Shep, a ranch dog in Wyoming, brought a carcass of a small mammal to his ...

The black-footed ferret could also be called the black-eyed ferret because of the distinctive “stick-em up” mask that adorns its face. The tan ferrets also have black markings on their feet ...