Clone Ferret

Clone Ferret

Top of Mind with Julie Rose • Season 1, Episode 1659, Segment 5
Aug 6, 2021 • 16m

A project at the US Fish and Wildlife Service successfully cloned a black-footed ferret using DNA from the frozen body of an animal that died 30 years ago. While black-footed ferrets aren’t yet extinct, they’re headed in that direction. Pete Gober is coordinator of the US Fish and Wildlife Service’s Black-footed Ferret Recovery Program. (Originally aired February 24th, 2021) (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service via AP)