A long-frozen cell line is now helping to rescue an endangered species.

Well, in this case, the story is real. For the first time in U.S. history, a cloned endangered species has produced offspring. SUMMERS: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently announced that ...

Since the removal of the invasive species, a native seabird, the Manx shearwater, has returned to breeding on Rathlin Island for the first time in 20 years Getty Northern Ireland's Rathlin Island is ...

Six black-footed ferret kits were born on May 11 at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. In a "groundbreaking achievement," a clone of an endangered species of ...

Atlantic Puffin returning from sea with a mouthful of sand eels to feed its young on Skomer Island© Rbmurray Photography/Shutterstock.com Mother Nature is often ...

When President Nixon signed the Endangered Species Act into law 50 years ago, one of the first on the endangered list was the black-footed ferret, North America’s rarest animal. Once thought to be ...

At about 3:30 a.m., four hours into our drive, Travis Livieri’s phone began to thrum. “I’ve got a ferret for you,” a voice crackled through the static. The animal in question was one of North ...

Two endangered baby black-footed ferrets have been born, but these babies are extremely unusual—they're both clones. Noreen was born at the National Black-Footed Ferret Conservation Center in Colorado ...