The first black-footed ferret clone has not successfully bred but the two new females named Noreen and Antonia raise hopes of creating more genetic diversity.
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Meet black-footed ferrets Noreen and Antonia: Their recent births are boosting hopes of diversifying the endangered species after being all but wiped out in the wild.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says two more black-footed ferrets have been cloned from the genes used for the first clone of an endangered species in the U.S. These three slinky predators are genetically identical to a single animal frozen back in the 1980s.
Meet black-footed ferrets Noreen and Antonia: Their recent births are boosting hopes of diversifying the endangered species after being all but wiped out in the wild.