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This African Aardvark Skull is just shy of 8 inches long and is in Mint Condition with all Of the fine nasal turbinate bones all intact.
You will not find a better specimen on the market.
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The Aardvark, or Ant Bear has very distinctive teeth, which instead of having a pulp cavity, have a number of thin tubes of dentine, each containing pulp and held together by cementum. They also have no enamel coating and are worn away and regrow continuously.
The Aarvarks main diet consist of ants,termites and other small insects which it is well adapted to find with it's long snout and long sticky tongue.
Conservation status of the Aardvark:
Least Concern:
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Superorder: Afrotheria
Order: Tubulidentata
Huxley, 1872
Family: Orycteropodidae
Gray, 1821
Genus: Orycteropus
G. Cuvier, 1798
Species: O. afer
Binomial name
Orycteropus afer
This Aardvark Skull Has All Of It's Fine Nasal Turbinate Bones In Place.
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