First recorded in 1765–75
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Under an around-the-clock summer sun, a young Arctic fox set out in July 2019 from Bylot Island in Nunavut, Canada.
From Scientific American ● May 18, 2023
In another clip, an Arctic fox gets vaccinated by squeezing into a smaller space where caretakers can safely inject the shot by hand, the zoo said.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 22, 2022
The $50-million movie features Jeremy Renner as the voice of Swifty the Arctic fox, a mailroom delivery service worker.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2019
Delicate drawings and watercolors of clouds, the aurora borealis, the frozen sea, an Arctic fox, a hen, a samovar and many plants, some pressed, some drawn, were assembled into a self-published journal.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 12, 2018
He navigated by other signs—his Arctic fox dæmon for one, who sat at the front of the sledge keenly scenting the way.
From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman
Translated from the Dutch by Michele Hutchison, “Snow Fox” follows Rana, an arctic fox who lives in the remote northern reaches of Svalbard, Norway.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026
The fox, named Sven, was rescued in Oklahoma, where it’s illegal to own an arctic fox, and homed at a wildlife rescue and rehabilitation center before coming to the Point Defiance Zoo.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 27, 2022
The arctic fox, for example, uses its fluffy tail as extra insulation when it curls up to sleep in cold weather.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
Whereas the polar sea is abundant in life, vertebrate species on land are few, if memorable: polar bears, arctic fox, reindeer, ptarmigan.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 28, 2018
It was fortunate for Duane that he was such a sound sleeper and far too big for an arctic fox to push out of bed because Magic would eventually give up and leave.
From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el
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