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A slumbering Arctic fox in winter will wrap its long, bushy tail around its body for added warmth. Its feet are covered in dense fur to insulate against the cold and provide traction on the ice.

Equipped for temperatures below -40C (-40F), Arctic foxes have short muzzles, warm fur and insulated foot pads that act as heat exchangers. Historically, they lived across the Arctic's circumpolar ...

I knew as soon as I looked at the fox that it was an arctic fox, based on its face shape, based on its foot pads having way more fur than necessary for our area,” Lema said. “Definitely made ...

Breakthrough study reveals how woolly mammoths and Arctic animals evolved their cold-weather superpowers over 3 million years ...

The Bird Alliance of Oregon confirmed that a mammal with white fur recorded near the Sellwood Bridge’s west end on Wednesday, Oct. 9, is a female Arctic fox. The 6.5-pound fox, which was found ...

An abandoned Arctic fox found wandering in an NW Portland park ... The young fox, weighing about 6 1/2 pounds with snowy white fur, arrived at the zoo on Friday. She'll be staying there (out ...

Arctic foxes, which are white ... Leucism can cause an animal to partially lose pigmentation — so its skin or fur might be mostly white, but not entirely. That’s distinct from albinism ...

An Arctic fox meanders lazily with a bloody tail. Other furry creatures, some with teary eyes, stare blankly into a light on an activist’s video camera. Finnish advocacy group Oikeutta Elaimille ...

Arctic foxes were almost hunted to extinction in Sweden, Norway and Finland. Can projects to breed and feed them help this native species return for good? As summer gives way to an early autumn on ...