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The British Badger is one of the better known badgers across the world. More correctly, the British Badger should be known as the European or Eurasian badger - because it lives in Europe and Asia (including in some parts of China and even Japan).

The Scientific name for a "British" badger is Meles meles (in the Melinae Sub-Family, part of the Mustelidae family - all members of a group of animals called the Carnivora). Although this would suggest that the badger is a carnivore, it is actually an omnivore (meaning that it eats both meat and plants).

The origin of Meles meles is not entirely certain. Even the most useful reference work on the subject is the Badgers (written by Ernest Neal and Chris Cheeseman) is a little sketchy.

This book suggests that primitive badger-forms have been around for nearly 4 million years- possibly coming from the Pliocene genus Melodon in China. The original Meles line then evolved from the temporate forests of Asia, spreading West into Europe.

The earliest fossil of the genus Meles is Thoral's badger (Meles Thorali) and was in France at Saint-Villier, near Lyons, and is perhaps 2 million years old. Other similar fossils were found in China, so this species was probably very widespread. By the early to middle Pleistocene, Europe was inhabited by badgers similar to the modern species. These are now referred to as the sub-species Meles meles atavus (Kormos).