Initially, Cañada Seca’s four-legged skeleton was recognized as a Lycalopex, a genus of South American foxes that also roam the continent today, reports the New York Times’ Jack Tamisiea. However, according to the new evaluation, the animal actually belongs to the extinct fox species Dusicyon avus. Avus roamed Patagonia’s grasslands from the late Ice Age until about 500 years in the past. Over a millennium in the past, an historical society of hunter-gatherers in Argentina’s Patagonia area buried certainly one of its members in a small cemetery. In the same grave, they interred an animal—a fox—which archaeologists assume was a …