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Fantastic arctic fox: animal walks 3,500km from Norway to Canada

Epic journey by female fox includes fastest movement rate for species ever recorded
The arctic fox used sea ice to travel from Norway to Greenland to Canada. Photograph: Arterra/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

An arctic fox has walked more than 3,500km (2,000 miles) from Norway to Canada in just 76 days, astonishing researchers at the Norwegian Polar Institute.

The animal, known as a coastal or blue fox, was fitted with a tracking device in July 2017. It left Spitsbergen in Norway’s Svalbard archipelago on 26 March 2018. After

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