Vulpes Skinneri: Two Million-Year-Old Fox Species Found

Wednesday, January 23, 2013 - 18:00 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Researchers have announced the discovery of a two million year old fossil fox at the now renowned archaeological site of Malapa in the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site.   The previously unknown species of fox is named Vulpes Skinneri, for the recently deceased South African mammalogist and ecologist Prof. John Skinner of the University of Pretoria.   read more

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