American Badger (Wild Safari North American Wildlife by Safari Ltd.)

The American badger (Taxidea taxus) is said to be North America’s only species of badger, but the truth is that badgers are a polyphyletic group, united not by a single common ancestor but by appearance. In the case of the American badger, it is the only member of its sub-family, Taxidiinae. According to a 2018 paper, the American badger is the most basal species of Mustelidae, splitting off […]

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