The channel islands fox is one of America’s most photogenic creatures—and one of its most endangered. The tiny fox is North America’s smallest wild canid, with adults weighing a mere four ...

Island foxes, one of the only carnivores endemic to California, have been distinguished from foxes on the mainland by 16,000 years of evolution — ever since they colonized the modern-day Channel ...

Pups are woolly before their first molt and have a darker coat than adult foxes. HABITAT: Island foxes occur in virtually every habitat on the Channel Islands, including valley and foothill grasslands ...

The paper, by C.E. Vincenot at Kyoto University in Kyoto, Japan, and colleagues was titled, "Can we protect island flying foxes?" ...

But why does the Channel Island have no native red squirrels - and why does it lack other small species like moles, badgers and foxes, as well as snakes and toads? Dr Ellie Scopes, a population ...

a retired wildlife biologist who worked at the Channel Islands for more than two decades. Coonan spent most of his time running programs focused on the decline and recovery of island foxes.

the Channel Islands are home to more than 2,000 plants and animal species, from rare seabirds to elephant seals. Some, like the small, cinnamon-colored island foxes, are found there and nowhere else.