Scientists clone black-footed ferret, first for endangered US species

Scientists clone black-footed ferret, first for endangered US species
Celine Castronuovo
© Wikimedia/J. Michael Lockhart/USFWS
A black-footed ferret
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) on Thursday announced that it had successfully cloned a black-footed ferret, the first cloning of a U.S. endangered species.
The agency revealed the breakthrough in a press release, writing that its cloned ferret, named "Elizabeth Ann," was born Dec. 10 and has been raised at the service's black-footed ferret breeding facility in Fort Collins, Colo.
The ferret was made from frozen DNA extracted from "Willa," a black-footed ferret who died in 1988.
Noreen Walsh, director of the USFWS's Mountain-Prairie Region, said in a statement that while the research is preliminary, the cloning marked the first of "a native endangered species in North America, and it provides a promising tool for continued efforts to conserve the black-footed ferret."

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