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 ...

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 ...

If you’ve ever seen both a ferret and a weasel, you’ll agree that it can be pretty difficult to spot the difference between the two. Let’s see if we can make it a little easier by comparing them in ...

A ferret pokes their head up in one of the cages inside the National Black-footed Ferret Conservation Center, in Fort Collins, Colo. Inside a nondescript building north of Fort Collins, U.S. Fish and ...

I have a ridiculous fascination with horrible things that people do to themselves in the name of sport. It’s a guilty pleasure, because it makes me feel better about myself that I don’t do ridiculous ...

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 ...

One species of mustelid is particularly adept at maneuvers below the ground – the ferret. Ferrets hunt in tight and twisty burrows, bending their bodies up to 180 degrees, both vertically and ...

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 ...