By Shreya Dasgupta Rathlin Island off the north of Northern Ireland is now free from feral ferrets that were harming its ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Take one look at a happy ferret at play, and you'll immediately understand why so many people love them. They're so effusively ...

Mother Nature is often unpredictable, despite humans’ constant efforts to control her. The animal kingdom follows its own ...

Ferrets have long weaseled their way into many people's hearts. To the surprise of some, the small fury animals were domesticated centuries ago, and they can be great pets for people who live in small ...

Ferrets scampered into the national spotlight this year when the comedy "Along Came Polly" featured a running gag about Jennifer Aniston's character's blind pet ferret. These sleek, furry creatures, ...

Wildlife agencies want to expand the reintroduction area of the endangered black-footed ferret and make it easier for private landowners to participate in the recovery program. A proposed rule would ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Nina Shapiro is a physician writer who dispels health myths. Ferrets have a similar respiratory cellular structure to minks, ...

We at The Watchdog are sometimes unprepared for the feedback we get on a particular subject. We will add “ferrets” to that list. Well, we heard back from Bonnie Tormohlen, director of the California ...

Two more black-footed ferrets have been cloned from the genes used for the first clone of an endangered species in the U.S., bringing to three the number of slinky predators genetically identical to ...

Conservationists are giving a critically endangered species a second chance in Kansas.

Twenty-five years ago today, a dog in Wyoming arrived at its owner's doorstep with a dead black-footed ferret in its mouth. Until then, biologists had thought the species was extinct. Within a few ...