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 ...

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 ...

We’ve ferreted out the answers to some of the most-searched questions about North America’s only native ferret species. Ashley Goetz Black-footed ferrets are well-suited for their prairie environment, ...

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 ...

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 ...