Little red flying foxes are tree-dwelling bats. In daytime they can be seen roosting in giant camps that may include as many as a million individuals. The bats are indeed efficient fliers ...

The red fox is the only animal which is known to use the Earth’s magnetic field to hunt. It’s thought to be able to sense it using a protein in its eyes called cryptochrome. With fine warm ...

“Almost the entire animal lying where it had been for so long, nearly every bone intact and well preserved. We don’t often see specimens like that.” The skeleton of a red fox dating back to ...

Hood in Oregon, where the animals face the same threats. “The Sierra Nevada red fox is a vanishing emblem of remote Sierra wilderness and a harbinger of climate change,” said Jeff Miller, a senior ...