Data on the shape of teeth can be used to test hypotheses about the relationship between adaptive and stochastic processes involved in morphologic divergence between populations. We used 7 ...

A new study identifies a newly discovered 3- to 5- million-year-old Tibetan fox from the Himalayan Mountains, Vulpes qiuzhudingi, as the likely ancestor of the living Arctic fox (Vulpes lagopus), ...

Fossil jawbones and teeth of a highly predatory fox have been found in the Himalayas. Researchers say this new extinct fox is likely the ancestor of modern arctic foxes (Vulpes lagopus), suggesting ...

Red fox scientific name is Vulpes vulpes, established by Carl Linnaeus in 1758. Rural red fox populations in Great Britain declined nearly half between 1995-2022. Genus Vulpes includes Arctic Fox ...

The high altitude Tibetan Plateau may be the cradle of "hypercarnivorous" evolution — and we're not talking about people who follow the Paleo diet. Based on analysis of a recently discovered extinct ...

FLUFFY, snow-white and dedicated trekkers. Arctic foxes (Vulpes lagopus) are known for their mammoth wanderings across the ice. Those journeys may have taken some to Iceland during the Little Ice Age.

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