Viking Women and Black Footed-Ferrets are Coming to the Museum This Holiday Season | Smithsonian Voices

Once feared extinct, black-footed ferrets have rebounded thanks partly to the work of Smithsonian conservation biologists.
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The holiday season is in full swing as are events and programming at the National Museum of Natural History. This month, visitors can find out how black-footed ferrets are coming back from the brink of extinction, why ancient Viking women used textile production as a means of expression and exciting new details about how and when people first came to the Americas.