Tag: North American beaver

  • Orange Teeth and Iron Jaws Inside the Beaver’s Remarkable Mouth

    Orange Teeth and Iron Jaws Inside the Beaver’s Remarkable Mouth

    Most mammals enter the world toothless, vulnerable, and dependent on their mothers for every meal. Beavers break that rule before they take their first breath. Beaver kits arrive with something unusual already visible in their tiny mouths. A flash of color peeks through their gums, bright and unmistakable. Orange. Not the soft pink of emerging…