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Photo by Vincent J Musi

She fed me cookies and coffee in her lab in Siberia

Photoslob talks about meeting Lyudmila Trut, and other numerous adventures, while working on a story about domestication in animals for National Geographic in a great comment in the How We Really Tamed the Dog thread about how Russian researchers bred a new tame fox species in just 60 years.

a pair of island foxes, from the National Park Service via Wikimedia Commons

"[I]t turns out that fox genitalia is weird...."