In a thrilling win for wildlife conservation, a Northern California photographer has captured trail camera footage of one of the planet's rarest mammals: the Sierra Nevada red fox.

Scientists from the Smithsonian have successfully used swift fox droppings to identify individual animals and collect other ...

Of the 26 scat samples that yielded DNA, the method was able to correctly identify individual foxes with an accuracy of 94.5–99.5% when comparing multiple samples from the same animal. The technique ...