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Dog outweighs Eurasian badger 3.4× — 40 kg against 11.9 kg.

Tale of the tape

Body mass

40 kg

🐕 Dog · AnAge

12 kg

🦡 Eurasian badger · COMBINE

Body length

no figure yet

🐕 Dog

0.8 m

🦡 Eurasian badger · COMBINE

Maximum lifespan

27 yr

🐕 Dog · AnAge

19 yr

🦡 Eurasian badger · COMBINE

Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures.

Dieren voor de camera

Echte beelden van de dieren op deze site — hoe ze jagen, vechten en gewoon hun eigen gang gaan.

Shared ancestry

The closest group they share is Caniformia (suborder), home to 469 species.

They last shared an ancestor about 33 million years ago.

Estimates range from 28 to 40 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.

About this estimate

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