Now, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, in partnership with a biotechnology nonprofit, is announcing that it’s followed up that initial cloning effort with two more ferrets born from the same genetic material. While this is good news for the black-footed ferret, the species still has a long way to go before it can be considered stable in the wild.

The birth of a cloned black-footed ferret named Elizabeth Ann, and her two new sisters, has sparked a new pilot program to preserve the tissues of hundreds of endangered species “just in case”

CHEYENNE, Wyo. — Two more black-footed ferrets have been cloned from the genes used for the first clone of an endangered species in the U.S., bringing to three the number of slinky predators genetically identical to one of the last such animals found in the wild, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Wednesday.

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