Oliver the white-coated ferret loves to hike, kayak and nap across the country Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013. Her work has previously appeared on ...

Elizabeth Ann is just 2 months old, but her extraordinary life is already making history. This black-footed ferret is a clone of an animal that died more than 30 years ago, and she is the first ...

Four hours into a pitch black trudge around a ranch full of ankle-turning prairie dog holes, the search for North America’s most endangered mammal starts to feel a little hopeless. “It’s like trying ...

Dean Holzwarth and Andy McDonald hold off on the panic after the Lions fell to the Vikings. They also discuss the loss of ...

Elizabeth Ann is about two months old and was cloned from 33-year old DNA US scientists have successfully cloned a highly-endangered black-footed ferret using DNA from an identical animal that has ...

American pioneers saw the endless stretches of grassland of the Great Plains as a place to produce grain and beef for a growing country. But one casualty was the native prairie ecosystem and animals ...

It won’t be cuddly, but it’ll certainly be efficient. The University of Sheffield is developing what it calls a cargo-screening ferret that uses a combination of laser and fiber-optic technology to ...

To underscore the point, it shows a ferret -- a weasel-like creature banned in California since 1933 -- sniffing around Arnold Schwarzenegger’s star on Hollywood Boulevard. For untold thousands of ...

Cats may not be known for being the most-sociable animals, but one cat's adorable friendship with a ferret has melted hearts. In a post by u/graciep11 on Reddit's r/cats subreddit, Comet the cat is ...

Maybe she was trying to ferret out the answer to her problems. An apparently distraught woman leapt into the waters off Weehawken, N.J. in a leopard-print nightgown late Friday — and she wasn’t alone ...