https://www.live-feeds.com/feed/holy-grail-antique-fox-head-bought-at-a-flea-market-turns-out-to-be-an-ancient-extinct-species-valued-at-85kContinuously updated, source-cited coverage. https://www.live-feeds.com/feed/holy-grail-antique-fox-head-bought-at-a-flea-market-turns-out-to-be-an-ancient-extinct-species-valued-at-85khttps://www.live-feeds.com/feed/holy-grail-antique-fox-head-bought-at-a-flea-market-turns-out-to-be-an-ancient-extinct-species-valued-at-85k#u59896Mon, 07 Sep 2026 12:05:06 +0000A United Kingdom collector who paid sixty-two thousand pounds for a mounted fox head discovered through X-rays that the specimen actually contained the skull of an extinct thylacine. The item, valued at eighty-five thousand dollars, was initially won at auction or bought at a flea market as a weird fox head before testing revealed its true identity as an ancient extinct species. This rare find has stunned experts who now recognize the object as a prized thylacine artifact rather than ordinary taxidermy.Why it mattersTaxidermy mounts occasionally conceal rare or unexpected biological specimens