2 clips name both of them

1,022 views between them.

Red fox outweighs Arctic fox 1.3× — 4.6 kg against 3.6 kg.

Tale of the tape

Body mass

3.6 kg

🦊 Arctic fox · COMBINE

4.58 kg

🦊 Red fox · COMBINE

Shoulder height

no figure yet

🦊 Arctic fox

0.41 m

🦊 Red fox

Body length

0.62 m

🦊 Arctic fox · COMBINE

0.63 m

🦊 Red fox · COMBINE

Maximum lifespan

16 yr

🦊 Arctic fox · COMBINE

21 yr

🦊 Red fox · COMBINE

Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures.

Animals caught on camera

Real footage of the animals on this site — hunting, fighting, and getting on with it.

Shared ancestry

The closest group they share is Canidae (family), home to 211 species.

They last shared an ancestor about 4.3 million years ago.

Estimates range from 3.4 to 5.2 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.

About this estimate

Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).