Meles meles

European Badger

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badger mandible

 
Mandible of European Badger
 
Condylobasal length - 135.9mm
 
Note alveolus of (missing) vestigial 1st premolar.  The sharp edges seen on the carnassials of many carnivores have been rounded as an adaptation to omnivory.

 
 

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