Photo: Arctic Fox May Be Left Behind By Warming, Study Suggests

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An arctic fox displays its characteristic winter coat. A new study has found that arctic foxes in Europe died out, rather than moving northward, when temperatures rapidly rose following the end of the last ice age.

That doesn't bode well for other, slower animals susceptible to climate warming, scientists say.

Photograph by Norbert Rosing/NGS

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