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Foxes were once humans’ best friends, study says
  + stars: | 2024-04-11 | by ( Mindy Weisberger | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +7 min
Archaeologists originally uncovered the near-complete D. avus skeleton buried alongside a human at Cañada Seca, a site in northern Patagonia, in 1991. Parts of the D. avus specimen were buried alongside a human at Cañada Seca, a site in northern Patagonia. D. avus lived from the Pleistocene Epoch (around 2.6 million to 11,700 years ago) into the Holocene, becoming extinct about 500 years ago. With a similar diet to D. avus, dogs may have helped speed the foxes’ extinction by outcompeting them. Dogs could also have carried and transmitted diseases that sickened the foxes, Lebrasseur added.
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Ancient Foxes Lived and Died Alongside Humans
  + stars: | 2024-04-09 | by ( Jack Tamisiea | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
But dogs were not the only ancient canines to become companions. Archaeologists have found traces of foxes living among early communities throughout South America. A team of researchers recently examined the fox’s bones, which were unearthed among the remains of dozens of hunter-gatherers. The team’s findings, published Tuesday in the journal Royal Society Open Science, posit that this fox lived alongside the humans it was buried with. “It’s a practice that had been suggested before, but to actually find it is a nice surprise.”
Persons: , Ophélie Lebrasseur, Organizations: Royal Society Open Science, University of Oxford Locations: South America, Patagonia
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