Virginia is home to the world's first black-footed ferrets born to a cloned endangered animal, according to The National Zoo.
Why it matters: It's historic work that could be replicated to save other threatened species.
Plus, the two baby ferrets — known as "kits" — are adorable as hell.
Just two three-week old kits born at the Zoo's Virginia campus in Front Royal. Photo: Courtesy of Adrienne Crosier, Smithsonian National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute
Catch up quick: Antonia is their mom, and she was created last year using preserved tissue samples from 1988 from another black-footed ferret named Willa, per a release.
She had a meet-cute with a 3-year-old black-footed ferret named Urchin, they mated, and then she gave birth to kits Sibert and Red Cloud in June at the Zoo's Virginia campus in Front Royal.
Fun fact: Per the Zoo, "male ferrets often 'chortle' to females during breeding."