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 ...