The badger skull saga

The repair of the badger skull is now more or less complete with only a couple of missing teeth.
They have a most formidable set of teeth, particularly so as their main prey are earthworms!
Badgers are also, of course accomplished diggers, creating a network of tunnels for a home.
The writers of the Mediaeval bestiaries were well aware of this but had a mistaken view of how the tunnels were excavated. For example Gerald of Wales [c. 1146 – c. 1223 AD] (Topographia Hibernica, chapter 20), had this to say:
" There is also here the badger or melot, an unclean animal, which bites sharply, frequenting the mountains and rocks. It makes holes under ground for its refuge and protection, scratching and digging them out with its feet. Some of them, whose natural instinct it is to serve the rest, have been seen, to the great admiration of the observers, lying on their backs with the earth dug out heaped on their bellies, and held together by their four claws, while others dragged them backward by a stick held in their mouth, fastening their teeth in which, they drew them out of the hole, with their burdens.!"
You can see them at work at https://bestiary.ca/beasts/beast4721.htm