A large international team of anthropologists, evolutionary theorists, biologists, and historians has identified gender and ...

Scientists knew that saber-toothed tigers were big — but this skull changes everything. "To picture a normal individual, ...

As mammals, we humans pack some sizable cheeks on either side of our faces. There’s some skin and fat, but also important muscles and ligaments that connect the lower jaw – known as the mandible – to ...

Scientists working in Colombia have discovered the largest snake on the planet, an animal that blows away previous records.

Scientists in Australia have identified the oldest known fossil footprints of a reptile-like animal on a slab of sandstone recovered near Melbourne.

THE mystery of a robust ancient jawbone with large teeth and what species it belongs ... lived and how they are related to humans. Animal bones found alongside the Penghu 1 suggest it may also ...

If we separate out the tusks — which are different from regular teeth because they don’t even fit inside the animal’s mouth — then some ... “These conical teeth are only located in the lower jaw both ...

Gummy Skull ... Eaten in One Day by One Woman Wasim, who had her jaw un-wired on Dec. 23, tells the outlet that now she has to repair the damage the jawbreaker did to her teeth. “All my bottom ...

While most adult humans have 32 permanent teeth, or 28 if your wisdom teeth don’t behave, you might be surprised to learn that the animal ... on its upper jaw and 148 on the lower making a ...

O. nodos’s toothless jaw represents an early example of this phenomenon. “The ancient ancestors of frogs would have had teeth on both their upper and lower jaws,” Oreska said. “The lower ...

There are two chief areas of the mandible bone: the “body” -- the chin out to the jaw angle -- and the rami, the two upward branches. The jawbone connects to the skull at the temporomandibular ...