This specimen is one of the oldest directly dated records of the red fox species,” said Ice Age mammal expert Greg McDonald, a retired National Park Service paleontologist.
The find is particularly amazing, experts said, given its setting in a wet cave with formations like “cave bacon” — sheetlike deposits of calcite or other carbonate minerals, formed where water flows ...
A 26,000-year-old red fox skeleton, named Roxy ... "It was pretty much just lying there in the cave — way, way, way in the back of the cave," he said, explaining the scene on KSL NewsRadio's ...
The largest of the true foxes, red foxes are also the most widespread, found across the entire northern hemisphere. But secretive Sierra Nevada red foxes — genetically and geographically distinct from ...