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Antique 'Fox Head' Bought at Auction Wasn't a Fox at All. It Was a Long-Extinct Species.


With its googly eyes, lumpy forehead, and awkward almost-smile, the strange, taxidermied fox head at the antique market was funny enough to throw down 50 quid on.  When the buyer later sold it at auction, they were stunned to see it go for 1,000 times more than they'd paid for it.  That's because this was no fox.

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