A nearly complete red fox skeleton dating back to the last ice age discovered in Utah is being moved to a new, warmer location.
A nearly complete skeleton of a red fox dating back to the last ice age found in northeast Utah over a decade ago is about to get a cushy new home in a much warmer place. Researchers learned about the red fox skeleton, located about a half-mile inside Whiterocks Cave north of Roosevelt in the Uinta Mountains, at least 15 years ago.
However, it wasn't until August that a team of scientists ultimately decided to recover the bones, said John Foster, curator of the museum at the Utah Field House of Natural History State Park, and leader of the project. The team of nine, including members of the Utah Division of State Parks and the U.S. Forest Service, spent 16 hours completing the expedition. They found that the creature's bones were still mostly there. It was pretty much just lying there in the cave - way, way, way in the back of the cave, he said, explaining the scene on KSL NewsRadio's Jeff Caplan's Afternoon News on Monday
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