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

The first clone of a black-footed ferret, Elizabeth Anne, was an important step in addressing the endangered species’ ...

Coloradan Tina Jackson's one-year probationary period as a federal employee was set to end on March 10. But three weeks ago, she was let go from the Fish and Wildlife Service team she headed.

Have you herd? Groups of animals often have unique, and sometimes funny, names. You’re probably familiar with the collective nouns for common backyard and barnyard animals, such as flocks of birds and ...

First, make sure you’re living somewhere where they’re legal to own. California, Hawaii, and New York City ban ferret ownership entirely, and many municipalities throughout the U.S. may have ...

It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. A pair of ferrets called Melon and Mango are looking for their forever home. The pair came into the care of the RSPCA's Suffolk Central ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Michelle Trachtenberg appears at the Critics’ Choice Television Awards in Beverly Hills, Calif., on June ...

The report was published in Emerging Infectious Diseases. In a ferret model of virus transmission used to study the potential of viruses to spread between people, pre-existing immunity appeared to ...

Two years ago, my 5-year-old grandson was rushed to the hospital, seriously ill. The diagnosis was Type 1 diabetes. For those of you, like me, who don't know the difference between Type 1 and Type 2 ...

The news moves fast, but understanding takes time. At Vox, we don’t chase every headline. We focus on what really matters. We break down the biggest stories — and the ones others overlook ...

In the open grasslands of South Dakota, not far from the dramatic rock formations of Badlands National Park, lives one of the ...