Their long snouts—narrower than those of other fox species—slice through the snow like knives through butter, according to Sunghwan Jung, a Cornell University biomechanist who ...

“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 first in ...

Unlike the red fox, this species frequently ascends trees by leaping into branches near the ground, or by shinnying up trunks. The back legs power the climb as the front limbs reach upward to grasp ...

Around the world, humans routinely kill carnivores to protect livestock and game, increase human safety and conserve native ...

Conservation dogs have been used to sniff out the scat of an endangered California species that has been in a population ...

“The Sierra Nevada red fox is a vanishing emblem of remote Sierra wilderness and a harbinger of climate change,” said Jeff Miller, a senior conservation advocate at the Center. “Endangered Species Act ...

Researchers caught one of Australia's most cunning predators in the act hunting a threatened fish species at a key nursery ...