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  2. Vulpes qiuzhudingi - Wikipedia

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    Vulpes qiuzhudingi is an extinct species of fox that lived during the Neogene period in the Himalayas. [2] It was primarily carnivorous. [3] The fossils, dating from the Pliocene epoch between 5.08 and 3.60 million years ago, were discovered in the Zanda Basin and Kunlun Mountains of Tibet.

  3. Vulpes skinneri - Wikipedia

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    Vulpes skinneri is a species of extinct fox in the genus Vulpes [1] from the early Pleistocene, identified based on fossil remains dated to about 2 million years ago. [2] The species is known from a single partial skeleton discovered in the Malapa Fossil Site at the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site in South Africa and is associated with the fossil hominin remains of Australopithecus ...

  4. List of recently extinct mammals - Wikipedia

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    A species is declared extinct after exhaustive surveys of all potential habitats eliminate all reasonable doubt that the last individual of a species, whether in the wild or in captivity, has died. [15] Recently extinct species are defined by the IUCN as becoming extinct after 1500 CE. [1]

  5. Fox - Wikipedia

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    The San Joaquin kit fox is a highly endangered species that has, ironically, become adapted to urban living in the San Joaquin Valley and Salinas Valley of southern California. Its diet includes mice, ground squirrels, rabbits, hares, bird eggs, and insects, and it has claimed habitats in open areas, golf courses, drainage basins, and school ...

  6. Foxes were once humans’ best friends, study says - AOL

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    Evidence from a Patagonian burial dating back about 1,500 years hints at a close connection between a hunter-gatherer and the extinct fox species Dusicyon avus.

  7. Lists of extinct species - Wikipedia

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    This page features lists of species and organisms that have become extinct. The reasons for extinction range from natural occurrences, such as shifts in the Earth's ecosystem or natural disasters, to human influences on nature by the overuse of natural resources, hunting and destruction of natural habitats.

  8. Small Mauritian flying fox - Wikipedia

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    The small Mauritian flying fox or dark flying fox (Pteropus subniger), known as a rougette to early French travelers, is an extinct species of megabat.It lived on the islands of Réunion and Mauritius in the Mascarene Islands of the Indian Ocean.

  9. Corsac fox - Wikipedia

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    The immediate ancestor of the corsac fox is believed to be the extinct species Vulpes praecorsac, which lived in central Europe during the early Pleistocene. [7] Fossils of corsac foxes date back to the mid-Pleistocene, and show the species once reached as far west as Switzerland, [4] and as far south as Crimea. [15]