Cozumel’s Dwarf Fox Lives! Mysterious Canid Gets a ‘Second Chance’ 20 Years After Its Last Sighting

Scientists Captured the First-Ever Photos of a Mysterious Island Fox, and It's Pretty Adorable

It makes sense that we don’t know every creature at the bottom of the ocean. Getting there is expensive and extremely dangerous. But when it comes to a creature on land, it’s hard to imagine one that we have never photographed before. That seems to be exactly what happened back in 2023, when scientists snapped a picture of the critically endangered Cozumel dwarf fox for the first time ever. And it’s adorable. According to a study published in Ne…

Cozumel’s dwarf fox lives! Mysterious canid gets a ‘second chance’ 20 years after its last sighting

A tiny fox long feared lost has reappeared on the island of Cozumel, giving scientists what one calls an unusual “second chance” to save one of the world’s rarest canids. In a paper published last month in the journal Neotropical Biology and Conservation, researchers reported the first confirmed sighting and photographs of the Cozumel dwarf fox in more than two decades. Lead study author Travis Bayer, director of Pathos Wildlife and Ph.D. candid…

First-Ever Images of Cozumel Dwarf Fox Captured by Scientists

Groundbreaking research has yielded the first photograph of the Cozumel Dwarf Fox (Urokion sp.), a rare and elusive species native to Cozumel Island, located off Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula. Captured in September 2023, these images represent the first confirmed evidence of this animal’s existence since 2001. This photograph shows a Cozumel Dwarf Fox (Urokion sp.) taken [...] The post First-Ever Images of Cozumel Dwarf Fox Captured by Scientists a…

Scientists Capture First-Ever Images of Cozumel Dwarf Fox

Researchers have obtained the first-ever photographs of the Cozumel dwarf fox (Urocyon sp.), an elusive dwarf fox living on the Caribbean island of Cozumel, off Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula. Captured in September 2023, the images provide the first confirmed evidence since 2001 that the elusive animal still survives on the island. The post Scientists Capture First-Ever Images of Cozumel Dwarf Fox appeared first on Sci.News: Breaking Science News.

One of the World’s Most Endangered Foxes Gets a Last Chance on Cozumel - Yucatán MagazineOne of the World’s Most Endangered Foxes Gets a Last Chance on Cozumel

For years, the story of the Cozumel fox was one of whispers and shadows. We are not talking quite Bigfoot levels, but still.