How will layoffs slashing a Colorado facility’s staff by more than a quarter impact efforts to restore the endangered ...

A woman in Pennsylvania spotted a rarely seen animal, a wild ermine (also known as a stoat or short-tailed weasel) in a ...

She might unlock the most powerful Mangekyo Sharingan. Throughout the run of the Naruto series, the Tailed Beasts were often used as tools of war. The man primarily responsible for this was none ...

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A Florida man faces charges after he allegedly touched young girls he lured to his home with the promise of letting them pet his ferrets. Robert Alan Rouse, 36, of Clearwater, is charged with two ...

Clearwater police say Robert Rouse, 36, lured children to his home with the promise of petting his ferrets. One girl told police that Rouse grabbed her and threw her onto his bed. Investigators also ...

If only black-footed ferrets had a brand ambassador like groundhogs have in Punxsutawney Phil. The endangered ferrets don’t quite feel the same love as the famous groundhog, but they do get a ...

It had feathers and wings, so it was clearly a bird — but it sported a long tail and sharp claws, which seemed reptilian. A smattering of other feathery Jurassic fossils, including those known ...

Wild black-footed ferret wearing a novel tracking collar peers out of a prairie dog burrow. Roshan Patel, Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute.