Martens, wolverines, skunks and red pandas

The elongated skull of a marten dubbed "Martes" sansaniensis from the Hammerschmiede site (left) compared with the skull of today's pine marten (Martes martes).
Lower jaw of the new weasel species, Circamustela hartmanni, which ate only meat.

Publication:

Nikolaos Kargopoulos, Alberto Valenciano, Juan Abella, Panagiotis Kampouridis, Thomas Lechner, Madelaine Böhme: The exceptionally high diversity of small carnivorans from the Late Miocene hominid locality of Hammerschmiede (Bavaria, Germany). PLOS ONE, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0268968

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