Scientists believe there are only a few hundred black-footed ferrets still living in the Western United States. The carnivores once thrived on the plains between Canada and Mexico, but humans plowed ...

HOT SPRINGS - Wind Cave National Park officials are celebrating the release this week of seven endangered black-footed ferrets into the 28,000-acre federal preserve. "It's been thirty years since the ...

Ferrets can get plague by eating prairie dogs that have died of the disease or may get it from fleas that carry the organism, as prairie dogs do. Prairie dogs make up about 90 percent of the ferrets' ...

A two-foot-long tubular animal that roams the West is officially back from extinction. Originally thought to be extinct, a dog in Meeteetse, Wyoming, "rediscovered" America's only native ferret in ...

BILLINGS, Mont. - Snatched from the brink of extinction more than 30 years ago, black-footed ferrets have struggled to maintain their toehold across the Great Plains as disease and agriculture have ...