The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has found that successful reintroduction of the black-footed ferret is nearly as rare and elusive as the weasel-like predators themselves. So when the Bureau of Land ...

A nocturnal species of weasel with a robber-mask-like marking across its eyes has returned to the remote ranchlands of western Wyoming where the critter almost went extinct more than 30 years ago.

Dec. 11 (UPI) --A Maine woman said an animal initially believed to be a rat and later thought to be an escaped ferret was eventually discovered to be a weasel in her ceiling. Kassondra Dale said she ...

My encounters with urban wildlife just keep coming. No sooner had I “herded” the hummingbird out of my upstairs bedroom for the second time last week, than a fat red-breasted robin flew through the ...

Pat Wright, the Libertarian Party’s nominee for lieutenant governor, is running on a platform to legalize the ownership of ferrets in this state (no, really -- see accompanying). Pro-ferret folks say ...

Ferrets have long weaseled their way into many people's hearts. To the surprise of some, the small fury animals were domesticated centuries ago, and they can be great pets for people who live in small ...

California's ferret owners are tired of being criminals. They live in the only U.S. state besides Hawaii that bans residents from keeping ferrets as pets, forcing an untold number of Californians to ...

MEETEETSE, Wyo. (AP) — A nocturnal species of weasel with a robber-mask-like marking across its eyes has returned to the remote ranchlands of western Wyoming where the critter almost went extinct more ...