Take one look at a happy ferret at play, and you'll immediately understand why so many people love them. They're so effusively energetic, constantly moving, playing, and exploring - and when they're ...

THE NIGHT WAS SETTLING from cool to downright cold as Holly Hicks drove out into the northern Arizona grasslands with an endangered black-footed ferret in her backseat. It rode in a pet carrier lined ...

(LAMAR, Colo.) — Biologists in southeastern Colorado are using drone technology to track and study endangered black-footed ferrets that have been released on the eastern plains. According to Colorado ...

A number of animals have been suggested as the intermediary carrier of the coronavirus that has wracked the world for more than a year; most of them are familiar, but you might not have heard of the ...

Oliver the white-coated ferret loves to hike, kayak and nap across the country Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013. Her work has previously appeared on ...