Elizabeth Ann, the first cloned black-footed ferret, at 1-day old resting with her domestic ferret siblings and surrogate mother at the National Black-footed Ferret Conservation Center December 11, 2020 in Fort Collins, Colorado. This is the first time scientists cloned a endangered species, duplicated from the genes of an animal that died over 30 years ago.

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